Measuring And Valuing Unwaged Work

EDM number 161 in 1995-96, proposed by Mildred Gordon on 05/12/1995.

That this House believes that, in view of the 1995 UN Human Development Report which estimates that unwaged and underwaged work is worth $16 trillion annually, $11 trillion of which is contributed by women and, in view of the decision by governments attending the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, in September, to 'Measure, in quantitative terms, unremunerated work that is outside national accounts, and work to improve methods to assess its value, and accurately reflect its value in satellite or other official accounts that are separate from but consistent with core national accounts', the government, in accordance with its publicly stated commitments, should now implement this crucial United Nations decision as its first step towards the implementation of all decisions of the Beijing Platform for Action.

This motion has been signed by a total of 28 MPs.