Women's Unpaid Work Equivalent to 15 Percent of Mexico's GDP, Study Concludes Agencia EFE
go to original June 22, 2014

MEXICO CITY - Women's unpaid work is equivalent to 15 percent of Mexico's gross domestic product, or GDP, excluding labor performed as caregivers and overseeing the household, National Women's Institute president Lorena Cruz Sanchez said.

"This high economic value of unpaid work done by women could move the country toward sustained development," Cruz said during a conference Monday in the central Mexican city of Aguascalientes.

Some "60 million of us women are carrying Mexico," Cruz said at the gathering of international experts.

Women are making this contribution even though they earn "less than men for equal work and when only four of 10 are in the labor force, mainly in the informal market, and when practically half of them live in permanent poverty," Cruz said.

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