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Step 3: according to the previous steps, the study can conduct the equation
of estimating the monetary value of the unpaid work that is equivalent to the
annual cost of unpaid work multiplied by the target population in each region
as follows:
Region Annual cost # of Unpaid workers Value of unpaid
per person work in Billion
Pounds
Urban governorates 27448 7824211 2.147
Lower Egypt 14673 17687787 2.595
Upper Egypt 10621 14725593 1.564
Total Egypt 16060 40739802 6.543

4. Discussion and Conclusion
Globally, according to the World Bank, women are responsible for 60 to
80 percent of all house and care work and 58 percent of unpaid work in
general. It is estimated that unpaid work being undertaken by women today
“amounts to as much as $10 trillion of output per year. ILO highlighted the
contribution that such efforts would make towards achieving Sustainable
Development Goal (SDG) 8 with regard to decent work, and called for no
worker to be left behind. A recent Harvard study found that gender equality
in the labour force could add US$28 trillion to the global economy by 2025.
Nationally in Egypt, the percentage of individuals who participate in
unpaid family work reached 68.3% in urban governorates with estimated
contribution of about 2.147 Billion EGP, then it decreases to 62.8% in lower
Egypt with estimated contribution of about 2.595 Billion EGP, and 59.2% in
upper Egypt with estimated contribution of about 1.564 Billion EGP. The total
annual contribution of unpaid family work in Egypt GDP is estimated to be
6.543 Billion Pounds.

References
1. CAPMAS, (2015), Egyptian Time Use Survey Report, Cairo, Egypt.
2. CAPMAS, (2015), Governorates Population Estimation by Age. Cairo,
Egypt.
3. UNDP, (2015), Human Development Report on Imbalances in Paid and
Unpaid Work
4. PAHO, (2010), the Invisible Economy and Gender Inequalities. The
Importance of Measuring and Valuing Unpaid Work. Washington, D.C.
5. Hirway Indira (1999): “Time Use Survey”, Integrating paid and unpaid
work into national policies: Selected papers, UNDP.

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