Journal of Research: THE BEDE ATHENAEUM

Earlier women were regarded as home makers but now with women empowerment there is added glory to the current status of women. Not only are they seen as successful working women but also as efficient homemakers striking a balance between home and work life. The physical output of women's household activities had never been sold nor made market-oriented. This has an impact on the status of women in society, their opportunities in public life and the gender-blindness of development policy. Women's unpaid work need to be visible, quantified and well recognized. The moment women entered the labor force to do care work for pay; their labor began to count as labor and started being counted as part of the national income. For the purposes of economic valuation, value is synonymous with the market value or value is simplified by assuming that an hour of market work and an hour of non market work have the same value. A large section of women, even if they are not working outside their home as wage earners, should do not consider themselves as unemployed. They are home mangers.