Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics
Who's Counting?
Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics is a 1995 documentary film on Marilyn Waring. Marilyn Waring is
a New Zealand feminist, former politician, author, academic, and activist for
female human rights and environmental issues. Through her research and
writing she is known as the principal founder of the discipline of feminist
economics.
This documentary is based on her
book if women counted. If Women Counted (1988) is a
revolutionary and powerfully argued feminist analysis of modern economics,
revealing how woman's housework, caring of the young, sick and the old is
automatically excluded from value in economic theory. While writing this book she used to get up early and observe the
nature, when she used to look around the view and everything looked absolutely beautiful. The
People suffering from
economical anxiety were influenced by her.
According to Gloria Steinem: “Because Marilyn
goal is to be understood, she understands very well that if people don’t have
the information, they can’t act upon it”
She gives as an example the oil spillage from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil tanker disaster, how
the disaster turned into benefits that turned this environmental cost into
a fantastically productive event:
insurance, new tanker, civil and criminal legal proceedings, payment for
clean-up operation, compensation for fishermen and Alaska’s tourist industry,
TV and other media exercises, membership gains for “green” organizations. As
she was giving the speech this film shows horrible pictures of the after result
of oil spillage and dead animals covered in oil.
Marilyn Waring discusses the intersection between feminism and economics.The word economics derives from a Greek word Oikonomikos which means household management.
Warring maps out an alternative vision based on the
idea of time as the new currency. Even though, the world call her a feminist,
her view points are not gender biased, they cover the overall economic system.She summarizes it
by saying: “This system cannot respond to values it refuses to
recognize. It is the cause of massive poverty, illness and the death of
millions of women and children, and it is encouraging environmental disaster.
This is an economic system that can eventually kill us all.”
Waring’s
love for animals is unconditional and so the documentary ends with beautiful
sightings of Waring's farm with her goats and sheeps roaming around.
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