How Women’s Worthwhile Pursuit Of The Workplace Reduced Them To A GDP Calculation

Are we undervaluing care work and the non-market activities that women have traditionally been associated with? Mary Harrington, author of “Feminism Against Progress,” out now, thinks so.

Harrington argues that when we view women’s entry into the workplace solely in terms of progress and equality, we implicitly devalue non-market activities such as domestic and civic work. These activities, which are often associated with women, are just as important as economic work and contribute to the fabric of society in different ways.

Historically, caring work has been associated with women, and this hierarchy of values is still prevalent today. Women do between two and ten times as much unpaid caring work as men, according

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