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

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par 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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