Marilyn Waring was the youngest member of the New Zealand parliament in 1975 at the age of 22. She served until 1984 when she brought down the ruling government. She had created a crucial antinuclear speech against her own Conservative Party, setting New Zealand on a non-nuclear path. While she was in parliament she became the chair of the national budget committee and began to question the principles of international accounting. Which are okay with environmental disasters and wars all in order to create markets for goods and services. In 1988, she published a landmark work of alternative economics "If Women Counted" which challenged the governments ideology on women's unpaid labor. She is currently the head of the Sisterhood Is Global Institute and returned to New Zealand to teach and write.