translated from Spanish: Minister Pla and Blümel make call to not load the hand with the housework to women

this morning, the Minister of women and gender equality, Isabel Plá, in the company of the Minister Secretary General of the Presidency, Gonzalo Blümel, made a call to all Chileans to share tasks during the holidays, in order to not load the hand to women and in this way all can celebrate.
According to the survey national on use of time of INE, women spend annually 1000 hours more than men on household tasks; 1 in 5 men involved in cleaning the House and only 29% of men participating in the laundry, while women do so in more than 70%.
Is this online, and a few days to begin the celebrations of the independence day celebrations, that the Minister Pla reiterated the importance that all Chileans collaborate in housework and child care, so that both men and women can enjoy this national celebration.  
“In Chile women have on average a day less rest three hours, every day of the year, which are the three hours than we spend the day in the household, are necessary but very heavy. We believe that a country fair, equitable is a society where the tasks to the interior of the House are shared in equal status for women and men”, said Minister Pla.
In terms of the roles of the activities that take place in the home, 38% of men believe that the main role of them in the family is the supply of money in the House, and 1 in 5 men believed to wash Ironing and cooking are female tasks.
In relation to the parties, the Minister said “are an opportunity to learn and start to make a change of behaviour within the family and begin to share household tasks, make the roast between MOM, Dad, children, do we charge after all of the cleaning of the kitchen”.
For his part, Minister Blümel called to share the household chores this 18: “it is noteworthy that women work three hours more than the men in the household chores, if one takes account, a day has 12 useful hours more or less We are talking about more than 80 days of work for women in domestic work. We have to make a cultural change and parties are a good time to make that cultural change is felt, because sometimes spends people hand, women work in the preparation of the feast and the man comes and eats roast “, so which share tasks, make together the downside to celebrate, without abuse”.
This reality is also plotted in the newly mentioned survey, in which more than 80% of the women in our country believe that equality there is no between men and women.

Original source in Spanish

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