The following report is by The Local:
Spain’s Ministry of Equality is set to launch an app that tracks time spent doing housework and highlights gender imbalances around the home.
The Spanish government has created an app to record the amount of time spent doing household chores in a bid to highlight the fact that females still do most of the housework.
The app is the brainchild of Spain’s Equality Ministry and is geared to promote the ‘co-responsible distribution’ of household chores and tasks by logging time spent doing them. Designed to be “simple” to use and “very similar” to cost sharing apps, the app will be easily adaptable to all types of families, as well as for housemates sharing apartments.
‘Feminist Approach’
The app will not only log hours spent doing household tasks but also, according to the Ministry, do so with a ‘feminist approach’ by highlighting more invisible tasks such as meal planning or giving emotional attention to children.
A recent report by the the Caixa Foundation estimated that women spend on average 15 more hours a week than men on household chores, which works out to 780 more per year.
Ángela Rodríguez, who works in the Equality Ministry, spoke to journalists in Geneva this week when presenting a report to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and indicated that the app has already passed the tendering stage and been awarded to software development company Wairbut, S.A. for production.
The Ministry expects it to be ready for use by September.
“We women spend more time on domestic tasks than men,” she told the committee, also adding some detail on the feminist angle of the application, suggesting it won’t only track tasks such as cleaning the kitchen, “which can be 20 minutes”, but also the time spent preparing for this, such as buying cleaning products or even drawing up shopping lists in order to be able to do.
The Spanish press reports that the app will cost the government €211,750 to make.
Changing Attitudes
A 2017 study found that 44 percent of Europeans believe that the main role of women is to take care of the home and family, while 43 percent claimed the role of men is to make money, according Eurobarometer figures.
However, it also found that Europeans were on the whole becoming more progressive in terms of traditional gender roles, with 8 out of 10 saying that men should take on the same amount of domestic responsibilities or take paternity leave to help with childcare.
It seems that in Spain these changing attitudes are not only confined to Spain’s Equality Ministry, but are also now reflected at a legislative level.
In March a Spanish court ordered a man to pay his ex-wife €200,000 for 25 years of unpaid domestic labour based on the minimum wage rate throughout their marriage.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
This is also the same disgusting country that decriminalized bestiality earlier this year; and the former Ministry of Equality chief who said pedophiles have a right to be with children!
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs 12:4
What an absolute mess Spain has become. Most people I feel like (me included) don’t realize just how evil this country is, but they are, it seems, are on the cutting edge of so many of these abominations.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Spain, being a Roman Catholic and Jesuit fortress, strikes again!
If China and/or Russia decide to attack anywhere else in Europe besides Ukraine (Russia) I pray Spain will be on their hit list!
what is with all the control freaks…boredom.
anyone who wants to control every aspect of any ones personal life is a bored psychopath living with no purpose.
That’s a good way to sum it up, Magnolia.
What if the lady simply enjoys housework? Or what if she wants her husband to just focus on his job instead of household chores?
Also…being forced to pay minimum wage to an ex-wife for for the household chores she did during the marriage? Really? Is that judge and court so incompetent to realize that the ex wife would be doing the chores married or not anyways? Getting paid to do household chores is called being a professional maid, not being married.
App schnapp. Isn’t an app only as good as the willingness of the user to use it and the correct and unbiased data logged into it by the user? Hard for me to think a lot of macho Latino men will be using this app unless Spain is forcing this on everyone by gunpoint. Of course, maybe that is just a stereotype I’ve developed over the years concerning male Spaniards, but how can they devote all their time to these apps when they are in the streets running with the bulls? I’m kind of glad my knowledge of that country is pretty much next to nil. I think I’ll keep it that way.