Unpaid, Unseen and Unlimited

[Submitting with Aditi Sharma: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aditiatwork/]

What problem or question are you centering? Invisible labour for women in India -- domestic work, emotional labour, and cognitive load -- remains economically and socially unmeasured.

Women perform hours of daily work that, Do not appear on salary slips, Are not counted in GDP, Are not reflected on LinkedIn profiles

Key questions we want to explore: How many hours of unpaid labour do women perform daily compared to men?

• If this labour were paid, what would it cost annually?
• How much of women’s “free time” is actually mental planning time?
• What is the “Emotional Labour Tax” in relationships and workplaces?
• How does invisible labour affect career growth and lifetime earnings?

‘Because if you don't measure something you can pretend it doesn’t exist’

Who is the audience for your session? This session is designed for:

• Young urban couples
• Corporate employees navigating gendered expectations

It is for anyone who says, “But I help.”

What is the scope of your session? The session will present results in the form of reactions, reflections and conversations started from a series of interactive satirical data visualizations that:

• Quantify unpaid labour in hours
• Translate those hours into monetary value
• Visualize mental load (planning, anticipating, remembering)
• Explore the emotional labour gap in relationships
• Examine long-term economic consequences

The tone will be satirical and playful on the surface – exaggerated and colorful but grounded in real data.

What will the participants take away ? How Satire, Playful Imagery, and Gamified Experiences spark conversations on Invisible Labor. These tools can make complex issues accessible by helping us:

• See invisible labor translate into measurable numbers
• Understand its economic implications
• Recognize how gendered systems shape both men and women
• Gain a new lens of examining domestic and emotional work

Ideal outcome: Conversation that go beyond the room We hope participants share the visuals with their partners and families, spark reflection and keep conversation alive around redistribution of labour.