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	Unpaid Work Valuation	Intersectionality Analysis
Field	Gender Studies	Gender Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2008	1989
Originator	Feminist economists & national-accounts statisticians (Nancy Folbre; UN SNA)	Kimberlé Crenshaw
Type	Imputation-based monetary valuation of non-market work	Critical qualitative analytic framework
Seminal source	European Commission, IMF, OECD, United Nations, & World Bank (2009). System of National Accounts 2008. United Nations. ISBN: 9789211615227	Crenshaw, K. (1991). Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color. Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1241–1299.
Aliases	Household Production Valuation, Valuation of Unpaid Care Work, Imputed Value of Unpaid Work	Intersectional Analysis, Intersectionality Framework, Intersectional Qualitative Analysis
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Summary	Unpaid work valuation assigns a monetary value to the household and care work — cooking, cleaning, childcare, eldercare — that falls outside the market and is therefore excluded from gross domestic product. By multiplying measured hours of unpaid work by an imputed wage, it makes the economic contribution of this overwhelmingly female-performed labor visible, typically reported in national-accounts satellite accounts as recommended by the System of National Accounts.	Intersectionality analysis is a critical qualitative framework that examines how multiple social categories — such as race, gender, class, sexuality, and disability — intersect and operate together to shape lived experience, advantage, and disadvantage. Coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 and 1991, it rejects single-axis analysis that treats categories one at a time, insisting instead that overlapping systems of power produce qualitatively distinct positions that cannot be understood by adding the categories separately.