Pam never ceases to amaze us. You know, Ãngela RodrÃguez Pam, the Secretary of State for Equality and faithful squire of Irene Montero. It is also a great generator of headlines, which people often confuse with those of El Mundo Today, that satirical website that has elevated fake news to a kind of comedy club, just like the Ministry of Equality. Listening to Pam, one wonders where she came from and what kind of men she has had to live with to say what she says and, worse, end up promoting it from a ministry and with everyone’s taxes. .
The fact is that after ironizing the release of rapists and demonizing penetration in the face of sexual self-stimulation in young women, a new hit has arrived. On your screens soon…, the Conciliatron (the copyright of the name is mine). A mobile application that provides statistics on how much each member of the couple spends on household chores. And without the need for rubbing. It works like when you tab at work. The computer is out and, pim Pam, the problems to reconcile are over.
Surely the Equality team has thought about it very much, although we predict that the Conciliatron will be a failure. Not only is it a solemn stupidity that no god will download, but it reveals a way of making political fiction at the level of the app. The paradox is that this ministry has supposedly come into this world to improve the lives of women.
As causality – not coincidence – has made the announcement of the Conciliatron coincide with another devastating statistic from the INE, according to which fewer and fewer babies are being born in Spain (10% less than in 2019 and falling), whoever writes this assumes permission to disassemble in this article the most common of deceptions. Which? To say that conciliation in Spain exists.
Here are ten lies with which a falsehood is mounted.
1. The man helps the woman at home. Helping is not taking responsibility. Observe what happens if we alter the subject: The man helps the woman at home. Does it sound weird to you? It will be true that the majority of men are in favor of equality, but theory is one thing and practice is another. I generalize, I know: there are couples and couples, luckily.
2. Teleworking has worked the miracle. Remote work carries the old inertias, in some cases even makes them worse. Where is the freedom when there is no option to choose.
3. If the man is the main provider of resources, then the woman manages the domestic. In other words, they are always in charge of the administration, and they are only when they can. Because: a) they shorten the working day (beware, reduced working hours or furloughs can be a big trap), they don’t even think about it. And b) only they “know how to buy†what they have to buy when they go to the supermarket because “they have everything in their headsâ€.
4. Distribution of tasks to 50%. The fifty-fifty may not be equal at all. What are we talking about if there is no flexibility depending on each moment and circumstance? How many times does he take the initiative or anticipate?
5. Oh, what a breakthrough: they also iron and put the washing machine. “Honey, look how clumsy I am.” Nature does not decide, it does not give women skills to take care of the family or the house and it takes them away from men. Progress is only made with (co)education.
6. All tasks and care can be outsourced. Simply false.
7. Family conciliation is a female challenge. Because only they have children and they don’t… It’s irony, of course.
8. The companies that are committed to reconciling are doing us a favor. No one should have to justify themselves for asking to reconcile. And it is not true that conciliation only affects employees who have children.
9. Women have fewer professional aspirations. What they don’t have is time for self-promotion.
10. We solve this with an application or a baby check. Another lie. Politics remains blind to reality. Neither the low birth rate nor its effects on a pension system in danger of collapse matter. Put resources and give public aid, and stop bullshitting.
