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Household chores in homes can be a source of tension. A free application offers a solution to work to appease them

The confinement linked to Covid-19 exacerbates the inequalities between women and men. This domestic burden is already higher in ordinary times in heterosexual couples where women perform 72% of household tasks and 65% of parental tasks.
In confinement, as long as one is telecommuting, the equation becomes explosive between managing children, managing the home and professional obligations.
Instagram accounts like @ taspenséà have long talked about this everyday reality. The testimonies speak for themselves and describe common situations for many women. The organization of the home is mainly managed by the woman, often without the spouse perceiving or questioning it.

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Two out of five employees can afford to be teleworking on all jobs. Some continue to work and we will talk about it tomorrow. Testimonies like this, I had about twenty … In two days. After the amazement and the "we are a team", another routine is set up. The one where you have to juggle between your continuing work, the one where you have to integrate children, who are not independent, the one where you have to agree not to go out to save lives. And we can arrive at a distribution of the roles which did not suit us and which still do not suit us. The fault of companies or the public service which tries to say that EVERYTHING IS NORMAL, and requires as much work, despite the children at home, despite the anxieties? The fault of the one who doesn't want to change anything, who realizes that children are real work? The crisis will last. The crisis highlights inequalities very strongly. What if during the crisis we questioned our models of couples? On the acceptable inequality that we have accepted? Many agreed to do more, believing that their work was of less value, was less important. And now ? What do we think? #taspensea #chargementale

A publication shared by "Have you thought about?" by Coline (@taspensea) on March 19, 2020 at 11:02 am PDT

Faced with this, many solutions exist. Dialogue and awareness-raising are not always enough to restore balance and for everyone to play their part in organizing a shared home.
However, one association has a draft solution.
Maydée has created an application that will allow you to categorize the tasks accomplished and the time that everyone spent there.
The app allows you to walk in a multi-step process. First, a time to count the tasks performed, and realize the level of investment of each in the home. This is necessary to know who is actually doing what, and to be able to put words into feelings of frustration ("I do everything in this house!"). Once this is done, it's time to move on to an analysis time. The application provides a statistical detail of the activities carried out according to the people. This provides an objective basis for the third step that Maydée proposes: that of dialogue. This step between the members of a household makes it possible to value the tasks accomplished, and to distribute them according to a formula which is suitable for all.

The application is available free of charge, in order to be accessible to the greatest number of households. No need to be necessarily in a relationship: with this application, roommate disputes finally have the possibility of being based on objective times spent on cleaning or washing up!
The asso also explains its gratuitousness in these terms: "We do not want to impose a price on women who will use the app. Women are economically penalized by gender specialization in social roles, this would amount to a double penalty in view of the inequalities already suffered. "
To support this beautiful project, those who can are invited to donate the amount of their choice.
To download this application, go to their site!


Video by Coline Amar


by Mathilde Wattecamps