Passage: Feminist economists have challenged traditional measures of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on the grounds that they systematically undervalue unpaid domestic labor and care work. Traditional macroeconomics, influenced by Adam Smith's focus on market exchange, defines 'productive' activity as that which results in a traded good or service. Consequently, the labor required to maintain households and raise children, predominantly performed by women, is treated as 'non-productive' and excluded from national accounts. Critics argue that this exclusion is not merely a statistical oversight but a methodological bias that obscures the economic interdependence between the market and the household. They propose a 'satellite account' system that would assign a monetary value to unpaid work based on the cost of hiring a market replacement. Such a system, proponents argue, would provide a more holistic view of national welfare and lead to more equitable social policies. Opponents, however, contend that the lack of market prices for domestic labor makes any valuation arbitrary and could distort economic signaling.