This study examines that lower middle class housewives are the worst victim of recognition of household work time in terms of national economy though they have a lot of contribution to household work. The cultural interpretation of women’s work in Bangladesh is not socially well recognized, thus women became victim of economic agency of their own. Homemakers worked longer hour in their household work but they remain invisible in terms of economic recognition. Homemakers household work treated as unpaid and non economic work and which has no relation to per capita income. Revaluing household work time can make homemakers contribution visible in national economy as well as GDP. Greater recognition is being afforded to the household economy at the international and national levels in social policy and even within standard economics. For this, huge amount of population are staying outside of direct production process and their contribution is not valued in the GDP. It accounts the wastage of human resource. The recognition of homemaker’s contribution should be important and consider them as active participants of national economy to ensure women’s development as well as their empowerment. Revaluing household work time can make homemakers contribution visible in national economy as well as GDP.
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