What impact do you think that the movement of women from working in th

What impact do you think that the movement of women from working in the household to working in the market has had on GDP? Why? Do you think that this points to a problem with GDP?

What will be an ideal response?

ANSWER

By moving to the market, women’s work is now counted in GDP while it was excluded before. This does point to an important omission in GDP. However, household production has not been included in GDP because of the difficulty in finding prices for these activities.