There is an increasing deployment of mobile use by the Spanish government, from the ability to do tax reporting, to the recent Covid radar failure extreme alert system, but now there are plans to go more far. The Ministry of Equality will launch in the coming months an application which will count the household chores carried out by the different members of the family to find out how many hours of housework are done by women and how many by men.
Egalitarian sources said on Wednesday that the application, which will show how many hours of domestic work are done by women and how many by men, It can start to be used in September and will be available on different platforms.
As explained by Ángela Rodríguez, Secretary of State for Equality, and its objective is very simple: a more efficient distribution of those uncomfortable and essential tasks so that the home is the right space for the family, and that those it is no longer the responsibility of a single member that of another find this balance It usually falls on the female in most cases.
Equitable distribution of tasks
The idea of this application is similar to that used in other existing applications in other areas such as travel expense allocation. The idea of the software that the government is preparing is a mobile system that counts the different daily tasks related to the house. In this sense, you can find cleaning tasks, kitchen chores, shopping cart or caring for people dependent on the home such as the elderly or children.
Thanks to the analytical data that will be extracted from its use, the Spanish government hopes to create “communication opportunities around co-responsibility” and to have a real analysis of what is happening in the homes of millions of families across the country. “It is the seed for building public policies around a co-responsible state, the great outstanding debt of equality policies,” government sources point out. EFE.
Household chores will be measured with this app
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One of the details that attract the attention of this application —whose name we do not yet know— is that “time balances” will be generated, that is, the calculation of the time that each member devotes to his home. The idea of the government is that in addition to being free, it adapts to all types of families and It will be operational from next September on all platforms, Android and iOS.
In the application, weekly and monthly summaries will be created which can be accessed in order to know the time that each one allocates to these tasks. Not everything stays within the framework of a typical family nucleus, but can can also be used by roommates, same-sex couples or even the same children. In addition, another of the important details of the application will be to take into account the invisible work, those key household tasks that are not considered planning the purchase or the organization of the planning, which generate a mental load and are not so easy to see.
If there are already many applications that extract all kinds of data to measure mobile use, control expenses or simply the time we spend exercising our bodies for the benefit of our health, now is the time for one that values work, uncomfortable in many of its tasks, performed by these family members; which is usually performed many times by women.
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