![]() ![]() She points out that the international arms trade is the world’s biggest growth industry, yet the amount of money spent on armaments in just two weeks could provide safe water for the entire world. ![]() An engaging performer with the flair of a stand-up comic, Waring is passionate in delivering her dual thesis: that the unacknowledged value of women’s work hides an exploitation of women and children worldwide, and that because the ecosystem is not factored in to economic growth, environmental degradation accelerates. ![]() Similar in format to director Terre Nash’s previous film (the Academy Award®-winning If You Love This Planet), this compelling and important documentary is essentially a reportage of Waring’s public lectures. The result was the scathing and important book If Women Counted. Marilyn Waring, the youngest woman to be elected to the New Zealand parliament, left politics to begin an exhaustive study of the role of women in economics. ![]()
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