Include women’s unpaid work in GDP calculation: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the authorities concerned to bring women's unpaid household works into the calculation of Bangladesh's gross domestic product (GDP).

Women do domestic chores all the life, but their work has remained unreported for a long time, the premier said.

Planning Minister MA Mannan said the premier made the comments after chairing a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council in Dhaka.

Mannan shared the results of the preliminary report of the latest Labour Force Survey 2022 in the meeting.

Many developed Nordic countries like Finland and Norway have already acknowledged women's domestic contribution, Hasina said.

Planning Minister MA Mannan speaks at a press conference after the Ecnec meeting at the planning ministry in the capital today. Photo: Md Asaduz Zaman

In response, the planning minister said he will assign Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies to work on it.

At the meeting, the premier also expressed her joy for the rising trend of women's participation in the labour force of Bangladesh.