"Who's Counting" A Documentary by Marilyn Waring
SUMMARY:-
Marilyn Waring is the foremost spokesperson for global feminist economics, and her ideas offer new approach to political section. In this documentary she make easier to understand the language of economics by defining it as value system in which all goods and activities are related only to their financial value. She demonstrated that unpaid work performed by women is unrecognized while activities that may be socially and environmentally bad are considered productive . She maps out alternative vision based on the idea of time as the new currency. When she was elected to New Zealand parliament , she brought down government on the issue of making the country nuclear free zone . She perfected what she calls the "art of dumb question" . Former members of her rural New Zealand constituency recall her dedicated approach and she promises to represent youth and women in parliament in her speech. She quotes "A place to stand" as her home county support base . She demonstrated that helping women increase village productivity. She had to convinced the male parliament members of economic value in providing child care for housewives in their working hours. She was disturbed by founding that the production by women are not considered important economically. She explained that people in power use growth as justification for exploitation. She outline political strategies such as houswives creating job description for income surveys and pushing women for political section. This film inspired many people to work on human scale economics alternatives , local currency exchanges and more efficient ways of measuring the qualities of life and also this is for those who suffers from what Waring calls "Economics anxiety".
Marilyn Waring is the foremost spokesperson for global feminist economics, and her ideas offer new approach to political section. In this documentary she make easier to understand the language of economics by defining it as value system in which all goods and activities are related only to their financial value. She demonstrated that unpaid work performed by women is unrecognized while activities that may be socially and environmentally bad are considered productive . She maps out alternative vision based on the idea of time as the new currency. When she was elected to New Zealand parliament , she brought down government on the issue of making the country nuclear free zone . She perfected what she calls the "art of dumb question" . Former members of her rural New Zealand constituency recall her dedicated approach and she promises to represent youth and women in parliament in her speech. She quotes "A place to stand" as her home county support base . She demonstrated that helping women increase village productivity. She had to convinced the male parliament members of economic value in providing child care for housewives in their working hours. She was disturbed by founding that the production by women are not considered important economically. She explained that people in power use growth as justification for exploitation. She outline political strategies such as houswives creating job description for income surveys and pushing women for political section. This film inspired many people to work on human scale economics alternatives , local currency exchanges and more efficient ways of measuring the qualities of life and also this is for those who suffers from what Waring calls "Economics anxiety".
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