These facts refer to women who are in paid work but, globally, 42% of women aren’t in the paid workforce because they are doing unpaid, largely invisible work at home. Does this work have value? Very much so. In fact, a study into unpaid labor conducted by PwC found that, in the US alone, the value of the unpaid economy was $565 billion—worth around a third of the entire economy—and the vast majority of this is attributed to childcare.