The Ministry of Equality will launch an application in the summer to count the time that the members of a household spend on domestic chores, which will make it possible to find out how many hours women spend and how many men do.
This has been advanced by the Secretary of State for Equality, Ãngela RodrÃguez, during her speech in Geneva at the head of the Spanish delegation that presents the IX Periodic Report of Spain and that is submitted for examination before the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
In subsequent statements to the media, the Secretary of State has pointed out that this tool will be “very similar” to those used to share the expenses of a trip, such as Tricount or Splitwise, and has encouraged future users to also use it with children and roommates, and to consider variables such as the “mental load” of the tasks, which “almost always falls on women”.
According to a recent report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), women in Spain spend more than twice as many hours on tasks as men (5 compared to 2 in the case of men).
During his speech, RodrÃguez reviewed some of the policies on equality and the prevention of sexist violence that the Government of Spain has implemented, such as the only yes is yes law, the reform of the abortion law, the trans law or the law for the protection of children and adolescents against violence.
In terms of conciliation, the Secretary of State for Equality has referred to the Co-responsible Plan, which has a financing of 200 million euros and contemplates conciliation as a right.
She has highlighted that this plan is a policy of raising awareness against sexist stereotypes that exist in care and has stressed that “if men and States do not become co-responsible for care, we will not close the gender gaps”.
