Salary to housewives vs counting women's unpaid work
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Jeemol Unni ( IANS)
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Mon, Jan 11 2021 21:18 IST
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Kamal Hasan's political party in Tamil Nadu promised salaries to housewives as part of its electoral campaign. And the idea was welcomed by Congress politician Shashi Tharoor. Today, the media is also celebrating the longest flight and the first from San Francisco to Bengaluru manned by an all women crew of pilots and co-pilots led by Captain Papagiri Thanmai and Captain Zoya Aggarwal.
How do these headline grabbing news compare to the long drawn out battle by feminist statisticians and economists to get better estimates of women's work in the national labour statistics? As well as document her full contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country by counting her paid and unpaid work?