Unpaid ‘women’s work’ is worth $427 billion, new research shows. See how much your unpaid labour is worth

By Leonora Risse, Associate Professor in Economics, University of Canberra

All 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 value on what all this unpaid labour is worth to the economy: about A$688 billion. That’s equivalent to around one-third of gross domestic product – and is mostly contributed by women.
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