Unpaid ‘women’s work’ is worth $427 billion, new research shows. See how much your unpaid labour is worth
- Written by Leonora Risse, Associate Professor in Economics, University of Canberra
Canva/The Conversation, CC BY-SAAll those thousands of hours that Australians put towards unpaid household work and care – cooking, cleaning and caring for family members – are an essential thread that keeps our economy stitched together.
But they’re not recognised in official economic statistics.
My new research puts a dollar...
