We recently published an adequacy evaluation of a Red Cross maternal health program in Honduras.

By Sian FitzGerald

Rural India – poor, backwards, destitute… that is the image that so many people have. There is poverty, that is true, and there is lack of services, lack of education especially for girls. But there is also beauty, peace, kindness and vitality. Part of that vitality is the ritual of local chai shops.

If we don't count household work in calculations of GDP (unless it is paid), how do we recognize all the unpaid work done by women throughout the world?

Months or years of hard work...and a sudden flurry of results.