How to rebalance housework between women and men

In Italy, the ratio, in terms of time, is 4 to 1, to the disadvantage of women. In America, only a third of men do anything, and meanwhile, the Fair Play method is all the rage.

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DIVIDING THE WORKLOAD WITHIN THE COUPLE
In America it is one of the most popular debates, especially since (2024) it was discovered, thanks to a studio of the British University of Bath and the Australian University of Melbourne, published in Journal of Marriage and family, that 79 percent of women say they do housework, compared to a paltry 35 percent. In France, things are even worse: only 7 percent of men do anything at all around the house, and on a daily basis Le Monde A well-documented investigation on the subject concludes with this appeal: “French women would do well to devote more attention to this topic.”
In Italy a statistic The International Labour Organization (ILO) confirms what we already knew from ISTAT data: the gap between the two sexes is enormous and unsustainable. Women in Italy dedicate an average of about 5 hours and 5 minutes a day to unpaid care activities (housework, family, childcare), while men dedicate about 1 hour and 48 minutes. That's more than 4 to 1, and with this ratio, we can talk about gender gap to be filled is pure rhetoric.
Only in Northern European countries (particularly Finland, Sweden, and Norway) are household chores completely shared, as taught in primary school. In Sweden, for example, according to Eurostat statistics, 70 percent of women perform housework, but so do over 60 percent of men. The same holds true for caring for young children: 96 percent of Swedish women do so, but so do 90 percent of men.
During the Covid years, when this problem of the household workload gap exploded in stark relief and many couples broke up, two books on the topic enjoyed great success. The first was Getting to 50-50, How Working Parents Can Have It All, written by Sharon Mears e Joanna StroberHere are a series of tips for achieving, clearly and without necessarily sparking conflict, gender equality in domestic work, which represents another mechanism for recognizing and rewarding women's work in the home. The most interesting aspect of this book is the discovery, through field research, that equal household chores make couples happier and more stable. The relationship grows.

Evi Rodsky's second book, " How I Convinced My Husband to Do the Dishes, " topped the nonfiction bestseller lists for a few weeks. Since then, the author hasn't let go of the subject. She's even invented a method, which she believes is unbeatable, for achieving a successful rebalancing of household chores between men and women.

The method is presented almost like a card game, in which the most important household tasks are assigned with a card that depicts them:

Household and family activities are represented as "cards." Each card corresponds to a responsibility, for example:

  • Preparing meals
  • Go shopping
  • Manage the laundry
  • Organize medical visits
  • Manage your children's school activities
  • Pay the bills

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At this point a draw is made and all the burden of the housework is divided between the woman and the man.
The method is described in a specific book (Fair play), which comes with the card set, but online you can purchase private coaching lessons, consulting programs, workshops, and videos with instructions to follow. A package premium It is offered at $1.600.
Without wanting to steal Evi Rodsky's work, there is another method, perhaps easier and certainly cost-free, to convince men to come to terms with women on the distribution of housework. It would be enough for women to start practicing a sort of silent resistance. Tonight we're going to a restaurant because I haven't cooked dinner. I'm sorry, the bed's still unmade, but I haven't had time. Are there no water or beer? I didn't get around to grocery shopping today. Would you mind going to talk to our son's teachers; they're always very strict with me.
Faced with this sum of positions, exposed with lightness ed ironyRest assured, rational man will prevail. And at least he'll tell you he's ready to negotiate a fair distribution of housework. At that point, a first step toward true equality has been taken.
 
In the ocean of hypocrisies of false sustainability everyone says that , and gender equality at all levels is one of the primary goals of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It's virtually unattainable. The gap in wages and pensions is around 30 percent. Meanwhile, domestic work and caring for both families (both their own and their own) falls entirely on women's shoulders. At this rate, according to UN forecasts, gender equality will be achieved by 2154. Stories, characters, and tales about the gender gap in this book. 
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