the labour force surveys which do not take into account the sporadic petty and intermittent nature of work performed by women in the domestic environment she also stated that data is not collected for non system of national accounts sna works within the existing statistical methods such as household work child and elderly care and voluntary work such work can be given visibility through tus which collects and classifies comprehensive information on how people spend their time on different activities it also taken into account the flexible and scattered nature of work done by women and enhances the quality of data available on the work force valuation of unpaid and invisible labour by women will lead to quantification of womens contribution to the economy establish her claim on national exchequer and inclusion in national policy claim in establishing and determining legal compensation in case of divorce and in empowering women while noting that much of womens labour is not based on her capability or skills but determined more as per the prevailing social norms prof hirway pointed out that an important objective of valuation of unpaid womens work she said is to device strategies to 1 reduce nonsna work 2 reduction and redistribution of womans work both productive and unproductive 3 bring about just and fair division of labour and 4 provide better alternatives for employment while much of the drudgery of the work is due to lack of amenities and facilities like water etc at the doorsteps it will help the government in providing better facilities at housestep and make better use of technology to improve productivity of unpaid daily household labour such as cooking etc experts also noted that the valuation of such work will reinforce the recognition of the impact and contribution of nonmarket work towards market work and the macroeconomy dimensions of such valuation they also noted that statistics suggest that while only 30 of the active age group in the labour force is comprised by women about 70 are men hence the gender dividend that can be achieved by mainstreaming valuation of unpaid womens work in the national accounting data will be higher some were of the view that apart from mainstreaming the data in national economic statistics it will in itself aid in better informed policy making within various ministries however the policies framed need to be sectoral as the different sectors have their own contextual requirements and gender dimensions academicians also opined that any monetary compensation based purely on valuation of unpaid labour in absence on nonmonetary and noneconomic intervention by the government may however have limited impact thus the strategy needs to be comprehensive the need for a legal framework for asset sharing was also mooted which has the potential to go a long way in empowering women and enhancing her dignity in the society and the household experts noted that the purpose of the valuation should be wholesome it should be divorced from issues such as the purity of data collection