#GAReads | Women's Unpaid Labor is Worth $10,900,000,000,000
“Women's Unpaid Labor is Worth $10,900,000,000,000”:
If American women earned minimum wage for the unpaid work they do around the house and caring for relatives, they would have made $1.5 trillion last year.
Globally, women would have earned $10.9 trillion.
Imagine you had a bucket big enough to hold all the money made in 2018 by the 50 biggest companies in the world. The $10.9 trillion that women didn't earn would more than fill it.
Read Gus Wezerek and Kristen R. Ghodsee’s full article at The New York Times here…