The $10.9 Trillion Cost of Unpaid Female Labor: A Breakdown For Our Male Readers
The cost of 382,523,249 Fords v. 40,073,529 Ferraris.
“This International Women’s Day, we looked at how much women would have made last year if they earned minimum wage for their unpaid work. The value of this shadow labor—$10.9 trillion—exceeds the combined revenue of the 50 largest companies on last year’s Fortune Global 500 list, including Walmart, Apple and Amazon.” —The New York Times
2,180 “Fast and Furious” franchises.
Roughly one and a half trillion cases of White Claw, or enough for every man on earth to have 318 cases.
3,811 NFLs.
36.5 billion Nintendo Switches.
68 Jeff Bezos-es.
The cost of 382,523,249 Fords v. 40,073,529 Ferraris.
Enough that if you lined the dollar bills up back to back you could travel to the moon 4,423 times.* (*You, the male reader, specifically, as no woman has yet walked on the moon)
Enough for everyone in the world to add $1,453 to their next paycheck (except for the women that live in the 18 countries where they are not allowed to work without permission from a husband or guardian).
Roughly 1,816,667,770,000 bottles of shaving cream for men, or 1,513,888,900,000 bottles of women’s shaving cream (the roughly 20 percent higher cost going to the preservation of women’s fragile legs and armpits)
1,20,599,300,000 10-packs of regular, manly Bic pens. You could also pay 170 percent more for identical pens, but in pink and purple from the Bic for Her line.
Over eight million dollars to spend on attorneys for each of the 1.92 million cases of domestic violence that take place each year.
Enough for Harvey Weinstein to broker 436,000 more $25 million settlements with his victims.
Still somehow 21 percent less than what men would have been unpaid for the same work.
Emmy Brett is an actor/writer in NYC. As a child, she starred as Jesus in her church’s nativity and she has been chasing that high ever since. Validate her antics on Twitter.
