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  • Marilyn Waring: The Political Years

    When I entered Parliament in 1975, I joined a very small club: although women in New Zealand won the right to vote in 1893, only a tiny handful had been Members of Parliament in the hundred or so years that followed. I was number 15!In 1975, Marilyn Waring was elected to the New Zealand Parliament as the MP for Raglan. Aged just 23, she was one of only a few female MPs who served through the ... Read more

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  • Counting for Nothing

    What Men Value and What Women are Worth

    Series series Heritage
    Safe drinking water counts for nothing. A pollution-free environment counts for nothing. Even some people - namely women - count for nothing. This is the case, at least, according to the United Nations System of National Accounts. Author Marilyn Waring, former New Zealand M.P., now professor, development consultant, writer, and goat farmer, isolates the gender bias that exists in the current ... Read more

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  • Thesis Survivor Stories

    Practical Advice on Getting Through Your PhD or Masters Thesis

    Edited by Marilyn Waring, Kate Kearins ...
    Presenting a range of voices and first-hand experiences, this edited collection provides real-world advice and tips and tricks to help students embarking on postgraduate study to get through the thesis journey. Edited by Marilyn Waring and Kate Kearins, the 23 essays which make up Thesis Survivor Stories seek to demystify the ups and downs of postgraduate life and the PhD research process. ... Read more

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  • Still Counting

    Wellbeing, Women's Work and Policy-making

    Series Book 73 - BWB Texts
    ‘Underneath the numbers, a philosophical judgement is always being made based on values, not facts.’Thirty years ago Marilyn Waring’s groundbreaking book Counting for Nothing was released. Waring explained, through meticulous economic analysis, how the success of the global economy rests on women’s unpaid work. Counting for Nothing became a phenomenon: it was read and discussed around the world, ... Read more

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  • 1 Way 2 C The World

    Writings 1984-2006

    Marilyn Waring is a truly absorbing figure known as a distinguished public intellectual, a leading feminist thinker, environmentalist, social justice activist, and for her early political career after election to New Zealand's parliament at age twenty-three. Assembling some of her most thought-provoking writings, 1 Way 2 C the World is a compelling collection of essays and reflections on many ... Read more

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  • The Voice to Parliament Handbook

    All the Detail You Need

    The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who have expressed support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart, but want to better understand what a Voice to Parliament actually means.'We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.' These words from the Uluru Statement from the Heart are a heartfelt ... Read more

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  • Why Africa is Poor

    And what Africans can do about it

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  • IELTS Writing Task 2. 'What Can I Write About This Question?' Book 2 Education

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    Series series Essential Mike Davis
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