Dr Marilyn Waring, scholar, environmentalist, social justice activist and author of Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth no longer believes that we should put monetary values on unpaid work and the environment. Instead she has developed a human rights approach that puts women and other vulnerable people at the centre. What would make women’s lives easier, safer and freer? And what would make women more valued? She discusses this in the 2015 Pamela Denoon Lecture.