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DNA Impact: Mumbai publisher removes employer-wife-maid analogy

Nitin Shah, owner of the Manan publications said that while there was no intention to hurt anyone, they have now decided to take the example out after the controversy.

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A day after DNA reported about an M Com textbook being used by students of the University of Mumbai for using a weird analogy to explain national income, the publishers have now decided to remove the reference from the book. The analogy in question was included in an Economics textbook for M Com semester II students. While trying to explain the concept of national income with the analogy of a housewife and a maid, a chapter in the book read: “If a man employs a maid servant, the payment to her may be considered as a positive item of national income. If he marries her, she will continue to do the same work without payment, and therefore, may not be included in national income.”

Nitin Shah, owner of the Manan publications said that while there was no intention to hurt anyone, they have now decided to take the example out after the controversy.

“The said paragraph was used from an international reference book which is referred by the University of Mumbai for the subject and was not the author’s own creation. The author only intended to explain the concept of national income by giving a hypothetical example. However it seems to have hurt some students recently as a result of which we have decided to keep it out of the upcoming editions” said Shah. 

Shah said that the publication would now ask the authors to use some other example instead of the one that created controversy. 

A senior commerce faculty from a city college said that publishers should be careful before picking content from various sources. “There should be some review process by the university to avoid such errors. Most students use books printed by private publications as the University does not provide any material for regular students and thus publishers should be more careful about what goes in these books” said the faculty member.

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