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About the project

What is The Patriarchy Owes Me?

The Patriarchy Owes Me is a free, data-backed calculator that prices unpaid domestic and reproductive labour at market rates and generates a personalised, itemised invoice.

It prices cooking, cleaning, laundry, childcare, life admin, pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding using real data sources: domestic worker market averages, ILO statistics, obstetric nursing rates, and the Child Penalty Atlas (Kleven et al., 2024). The result is a specific number. A forensic accounting of labour that has never appeared in any GDP figure, pay gap report, or equality index.

The tool launched in June 2026. It is free to use. It has no advertising.

The numbers

What women have billed so far

Last updated: June 2026  ·  Data from verified invoice logs

383
Invoices generated
Since June 2026
£406.15M
Collective outstanding balance
£406,152,155 total (mixed currencies, shown in £)
£1.06M
Average invoice per woman
Across 7.1 average years of labour
33.7%
US users
129 of 383 women
33.4%
UK users
128 of 383 women
7.1 yrs
Average years of labour per invoice
Range: 1–59 years
334
Women who included breastfeeding
87.2% of all users
£30K
Average breastfeeding line item
Per woman
£8.75M
Collective breastfeeding total
One line item, never previously priced

Data from verified, deduplicated invoice logs. Updated periodically. Full methodology and CSV data available on request to verified press.

Story angles

  • 01
    The economics of unpaid labour
    What market rates reveal about work that is performed daily, depended upon universally, and counted nowhere in any economic measure of equality.
  • 02
    The breastfeeding line item
    334 women. £8.75M. £30,265 per woman on average. One service that has never been priced — until now.
  • 03
    The child penalty
    How the gender pay gap is born at first childbirth — a 20% earnings reduction for mothers, documented across 134 countries — and what it costs over a lifetime.
  • 04
    The mental load
    Why "tracking and remembering everything" is the single highest-value line item on most invoices, and why it is the hardest to make visible.
  • 05
    The collective debt
    What happens when you add up what women are owed. Not in one household, but across 383, across a country, across the world. The number is £406.15M and counting.
Available to press

Aggregate invoice data
Deduplicated CSV on request, broken down by country, line item, and date
Methodology notes & data sources
Full rate sources, ILO/UN Women citations, and calculation logic
Interview availability
Available for comment, interview, and background briefing on the data
Calculator access
Journalists are encouraged to generate their own invoice — the tool is free and takes under two minutes
Brand assets
Logo, colour palette, and screenshots available in high resolution
Country-level data
US, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, Spain breakdowns available
Sources & methodology

Bibliography

  • ILO — Care Work and Care Jobs for the Future of Decent Work, 2018
  • ILO Statistical Brief — The impact of care responsibilities on women's labour force participation, 2024
  • ILOSTAT — What Labour Income Reveals About Gender Inequalities at Work, 2025
  • Kleven, H., Landais, C. et al. — The Child Penalty Atlas, Review of Economic Studies, 2024 (134 countries)
  • OECD — Gender Equality in a Changing World, 2024
  • UN Women — Facts and Figures: Economic Empowerment, 2023
  • Oxfam — Time to Care: Unpaid and Underpaid Care Work and the Global Inequality Crisis, 2020
  • WEF — Global Gender Gap Report, 2023