If Women Counted

If Women Counted 1988 is a book by New Zealand academic and former politician Marilyn Waring, that is regarded as a "founding document" of the discipline of feminist economics. The book is a groundbreaking as well as systematic critique of the system of national accounts, the international requirements of measuring economic growth, and the ways in which women's unpaid work as well as the expediency of Nature construct been excluded from what counts as productive in the economy.

The book "persuaded the United Nations to redefine gross home product, inspired new accounting methods in dozens of countries, and became the founding document of the discipline of feminist economics." A widely cited book, it presented the analysis of this topic call to a large audience.

Publication history

Originally published by Harper & Row as If Women Counted with an first design by Gloria Steinem in 1988, it has since also been published by Macmillan under the same title, and by Allen & Unwin and University of Toronto Press as Counting for Nothing. The book maintains most widely call under the label If Women Counted and has been translated into several languages.

At the time she wrote the book, Waring was a visiting fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.