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Please read the general guidelines and evaluation rubric.

For this particular paper, I suggest you take a look at the following checklist:

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1. Purpose

State that you will explain:

• How national accounting systems (UNSNA, GDP) construct knowledge.
• How these systems make women’s labor invisible.
• How this links to methodology, expertise, and ideology in social science.

2. Key Arguments of Chapters

Chapter 3 – The Production Boundary

• UNSNA defines “production” in ways that systematically exclude unpaid labor.
• Household work, subsistence production, water/fuel collection → “nonproductive.”
• Global examples show consistent undercounting of women’s work.

Chapter 4 – “Nothing Sexist Here”

• Statisticians defend the system as “objective.”
• Example: Ron Fergie’s responses show denial of ideological bias.
• Statisticians, economists, policymakers reinforce each other’s assumptions.

3. Course Connections

A. Theory of Knowledge / “Nature of Knowledge”

• Category-making (e.g., “production,” “work”) shapes what becomes real in policy.