Mothers have to be perceived as human resources, whose depletion consist not only in their non-existence in the event of death, but most importantly  consist in the depletion of their current and potential capabilities from doing “reproductive work” on the one hand and on the other hand in the depletion of monetary resources from the  lack of monetary compensation for doing “reproductive work” during their lifetime. It is this double view  that ought to be at the forefront of any  development agenda which seeks to alleviate maternal poverty and to overcome the unequal social and economic disadvantages mothers face.  

                                                                                                                      Elaine Agyemang Tontoh, 2020