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Comments on 'spinning the top': considering the impact of women's paid and unpaid work.(4 WOMEN'S ROLE IN THE MACROECONOMY)
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Regional Review
- Article date:
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January 1, 2005
- Author:
- Lynch, Lisa M.
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NANCY FOLBRE HAS WRITTEN an interesting and provocative piece challenging the premise that reaching the top in the private sector represents the global maximum in career goals. Examining the biology of gender differences, she looks at whether being successful at work makes women less desirable mates and whether evolution has resulted in men with a more competitive winner-take-all attitude, while women are more generous and cooperative. She also asks us to reconsider the role of competition within our economic system and argues that this requires an explicit accounting of unpaid work in the home when measuring gross domestic product (GDP) in national income accounts.
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