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====System of National Accounts==== Each country measures its economic output according to the System of National Accounts (SNA), sponsored mainly by the [[United Nations]] (UN), but implemented mainly by other organizations such as the [[European Commission]], the [[International Monetary Fund]] (IMF), the [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]] (OECD), and the [[World Bank]]. The SNA recognizes that unpaid work is an area of interest, but "unpaid household services are excluded from [its] production boundary."<ref name=UN>{{cite book|title=System of National Accounts, 2008|year=2009|publisher=United Nations|location=New York|isbn=978-92-1-161522-7|url=http://unstats.un.org/unsd/nationalaccount/docs/SNA2008.pdf}}</ref> Feminist economists have criticized the SNA for this exclusion, because by leaving out unpaid work, basic and necessary labor is ignored. Even accounting measures intended to recognize gender disparities are criticized for ignoring unpaid work. Two such examples are the [[Gender-related Development Index]] (GDI) and the [[Gender Empowerment Measure]] (GEM), neither of which include much unpaid work.<ref name=Beteta>{{cite journal|last=Beteta|first=Hanny Cueva|title=What is missing in measures of Women's Empowerment?|journal=Journal of Human Development|date=July 2006|volume=7|issue=2|pages=221β241 |doi=10.1080/14649880600768553|s2cid=216116889 |url=https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/80807 }}</ref> So feminist economics calls for a more comprehensive index which includes participation in unpaid work. In more recent years there has been increasing attention to this issue, such as recognition of unpaid work within SNA reports and a commitment by the UN to the measurement and valuation of unpaid work, emphasizing care work done by women. This goal was restated at the 1995 UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.<ref name=Luxton>{{Cite journal | last = Luxton | first = Meg | title = The UN, women, and household labour: Measuring and valuing unpaid work | journal = [[Women's Studies International Forum]] | volume = 20 | issue = 3 | pages = 431β439 | doi = 10.1016/S0277-5395(97)00026-5 | date = MayβJune 1997 }}</ref>
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