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Hello, thanks for listening to this edition of Analysis, the podcast that looks at some of the ideas behind

the news.

I'm Mary Ann Seacart.

Over the next half hour, I want to explore what I'm calling the real gender pay gap,

which includes all the money that women don't earn for all the extra unpaid work they do. This bath needs scrubbing. It's not going to clean itself. Oh, we've run out of toothpaste again.

I'll nip into the chemist on the way back from work. Now I still

got to buy a present for Ellie's birthday party. Mustn't forget to take it into

school on Thursday morning. Oh God I haven't paid that gas bill. There's an old saying that

sometimes is taught to economic students that if a man marries his housekeeper the

GDP goes down. That's because a housekeeper is paid for what she does,

and GDP or gross domestic product which measures the size of the economy only counts transactions in which money changes hands.

So if the housekeeper becomes a wife and is no longer paid for doing exactly the same work as she did before,

it will look as if the economy has shrunk.

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