Report: Women’s unpaid labor is worth $10.9 trillion

A new article from The New York Times reveals that women’s unpaid labor is worth about $10.9 trillion globally.

• The New York Times said: “If American women earned minimum wage for the unpaid work they do around the house and caring for relatives, they would have made $1.5 trillion last year.”
• Unpaid labor is defined in the article as “routine housework, shopping for necessary household goods, child care, tending to the elderly and other household or nonhousehold members and other unpaid activities related to household maintenance,” according to The New York Times.
• The number jumps to $10.9 trillion when you consider the entire world.

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• Women’s unpaid labor is worth $10,900,000,000,000 (The New York Times opinion)