Read this whole thread. It’s worth it. (Click on date-time stamp to go to thread.)
In 1920 the NBER when it was chartered made a fateful decision to exclude women's household labor from economic statistics (Redesigning the American Dream, Hayden, p. 125)
— Adina Levin (@alevin) April 6, 2019
It coincides with a lot of what I’ve been thinking about lately regarding the social construction of reality and how there is no such thing as objective measurement of any social aspect of life. It just can’t exist.