Gender Equality Begins at Home: Distributing Household Chores Fairly

  “My partner helps me with the housework”. To our despair, we keep hearing this age-old and now rusty expression. It’s one with an implicit gender categorization that needs reformulating. That’s because, in a house, no one should help anyone, because what exists is a common responsibility. It’s all about teamwork. In our society today, despite certain advances, changes in mentality, and achievements in terms of gender equality, the roots of the patriarchal model often prevail. It’s a hidden shadow that persists in many minds or in the inertia of a language, where the idea that the man provides and…