Not a journalist? Read about the project →
Press & Media · patriarchyowes.me

PRESS KIT

Everything you need to cover The Patriarchy Owes Me: live invoice data, story angles, methodology and media assets.

For interviews, data requests and general enquiries, use the same address.

The numbers

What women have billed so far

Last updated: September 2026  ·  Aggregate data from deduplicated invoice logs.

£414.84M
Collective outstanding balance
£414,835,405 total (mixed currencies, shown in £)
£1.03M
Average invoice per woman
Across 7.0 average years of labour
34.4%
US users
of all users
34.2%
UK users
of all users
7.0 yrs
Average years of labour per invoice
Range: 1–59 years
87.8%
Women who included breastfeeding
of all users
£29K
Average breastfeeding line item
Per woman
£8.99M
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
    352 women. £8.99M. £29,284 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 401, across a country, across the world. The number is £414.84M and counting.
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