Women's worth grossly undervalued

The socio-cultural curse of widespread discrimination including violence against women is rooted in the fact that their economic worth remains mostly undervalued at best and not valued at all at worst.Even in cases where women are paid for their work, it still is highly inequitable compared to what their male counterparts get. More demeaning to the women's intrinsic worth is the substantial underestimation of the role in GDP  for the failure to reflect the unaccounted for value of women's contribution to  national economy.
We often take pride in food self-sufficiency feeding 161 million from what used to be imported food –dependent 71 million at birth. The magic wand behind it is this: Out of 23 steps from plantation to the sale of paddy, women perform as many as 17. As though men are eligible as farmers women are outcasts. This is both an issue of   non-recognition as well as habitual patriarchal reluctance to estimate their contribution to agriculture including horticulture, pisciculture and poultry and livestock farming. Add to these, their mainstream house-keeping role without which nothing would move. Put together, the stupendous value addition made by women to national economy and their fuller potential for social good need to be recoginised coupled with monetization of their contribution.
These will have  multiple positive effects by way of enhancing  dignity and status of women, reorienting  political, cultural and social attitudes to be women-friendly and elevating the discourse on women's rights from the rhetoric to the substantive.