Accounts Receivable · Department of Reckoning
An itemised invoice for the labour you forgot to charge for. Backed by data from the ILO and UN Women.
Adjust the sliders. Watch the bill come due.
Chapter 1
If you stopped doing it, they'd notice.
Chapter 2
“Glowing” is not a compensation package.
Cramps, supplies, ruined sheets, planning around. Billed at the going rate.
Chapter 3
Pick your worth. The market certainly hasn't.
Official Invoice
Issued by: You
Billed to: The Patriarchy
INV-000001-PATRIARCHY
Menstrual management services
30 yrs × 13 cycles × ~6 hrs of cramps, supplies, laundry & logistics.
“Just take a paracetamol.” Invoiced separately.
Uterus rental
1 × 9 months, premium incubation. Custom-built human inside.
“But you glowed!” — not a payment method.
40 weeks pregnancy management
1 pregnancy × full-time body modification, nausea ops, social endurance.
“Eat more crackers” is not a coping strategy.
Labour & delivery (specialist rate)
1 delivery × 14 hrs. Pain tolerance at consultant level.
Unmedicated bonus not included in this estimate.
Breastfeeding & pumping services
1 baby × 6 mo × ~2.5 hrs/day. 24h availability not negotiated.
Also performed while answering emails.
Culinary services & meal planning
7 h/wk × 5 yrs at €30/h
Includes googling “quick dinners” at 6pm.
Domestic cleaning & sanitation
5 h/wk × 5 yrs at €30/h
Laundry, folding & textile care
3 h/wk × 5 yrs at €30/h
Folding his shirts is not a love language.
Dishwashing & kitchen reset
4 h/wk × 5 yrs at €30/h
Procurement & grocery logistics
2 h/wk × 5 yrs at €30/h
Plus remembering what ran out.
Life admin & household management
3 h/wk × 5 yrs at €30/h
Bills, appointments, forms, the school WhatsApp. Unpaid CEO work.
Childcare & mental load operations
15 h/wk × 5 yrs at €30/h
The mental load is the job inside the job. Neither is paid.
Clothes retrieval from floor
2 h/wk × 5 yrs at €30/h
Also known as reverse laundry.
Closing jars and cupboard doors
1 h/wk × 5 yrs at €30/h
Interest accruing daily. No late fee waived.
The footnotes
Globally, women perform 76% of all unpaid care work (ILO, 2018). If valued at minimum wage, it would add $10.8 trillion to the global economy annually. The gender pay gap widens most sharply at first childbirth — economists call this the child penalty. This calculator uses real domestic-service market rates, not minimum wage. Because your labour deserves market rate.
The Receipts · Real Data, Not Vibes
$10.8T
Annual value of unpaid care work performed by women worldwide — three times the global tech industry.
Source: Oxfam, 2020
4.5×
Hours of unpaid care work women perform compared to men, on average, every single day.
Source: ILO, 2018
77¢
Earned by women for every $1 earned by men globally — a gap that hasn't meaningfully closed in two decades.
Source: UN Women, 2023
16.4B
Hours of unpaid care work performed globally every day. Paid at minimum wage, that's $11 trillion a year.
Source: ILO Care Work Report
2 of 3
Adults living in extreme poverty are women and girls. Care responsibilities are a top driver.
Source: UN Women
131 yrs
Estimated time to close the global gender gap at current pace. We don't have 131 years. We have receipts.
Source: WEF Global Gender Gap 2023
“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” — Gloria Steinem (who, for the record, would absolutely send this invoice)