Luke Messac is a physician and a historian. His research focuses on the histories of health policy in southern Africa and the United States. He is currently a Resident in Emergency Medicine at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. https://www.newsdeeply.com/womensadvancement/contributor/luke-messac/rss en Equal Pay and Opportunity Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:30:00 +0000 Luke Messac https://www.newsdeeply.com/womensadvancement/community/2018/06/22/how-womens-unpaid-work-was-nearly-included-in-gdp-calculations https://www.newsdeeply.com/womensadvancement/community/2018/06/22/how-womens-unpaid-work-was-nearly-included-in-gdp-calculations The inventors of the Gross Domestic Product measure could have included women’s unpaid care work in national accounting system from the beginning, if only they’d listened to their female colleague.