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
Chapter 2
Cramps, supplies, ruined sheets, planning around.
Chapter 3
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
$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
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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 gap at current pace: 131 years. This invoice is due in 30 days.
Source: WEF Global Gender Gap 2023
RESOURCES
FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME · DIGITAL DOWNLOAD
A 7-day tracker for the work you do at home.
Tick what you did and how long it took. Do it for seven days.
Print it out or fill it in on your phone. Either works.
10-page A4 PDF
Cover, instructions, one page per day, weekly summary
Free ends in
PDF file. Print at home or use on any device. No app required.
FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME · DIGITAL DOWNLOAD
A structured agreement for dividing household labour.
Fill it in together. Sign it. Refer back to it when someone “forgets.”
2-page PDF · Fill in by hand or on screen
Covers division of labour across 32 recurring household and care tasks, a declaration section for invisible/unscheduled labour, agreed terms of review, and a signature block for both parties.
Free ends in
PDF file. Print at home or use on any device. No app required.
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