My friend posted this picture on his wall, showing the new Job description of the husband / father during coronavirus pandemic.
We have all received a lot of jokes around new job descriptions during COVID19 . But i decided to take a minute to share what i was discussing with friends and colleagues .
We are all working. Mums and dads from home. And now with remote schooling we are all now being transformed into teachers . For those who have little kids . We need to stay with them, explain , teach. All of this while working. As deadlines and working from home means work. We all have working priorities we need to meet .
Keeping the burden on the mother shoulders only is not Ok.
Usually mothers are the ones who clean the house too , care for children, have to cook… in brief all what we call in the gender “jargon” , the unpaid burden .
I think it is Wonderful that my friend shared this. He is an HR manager and dad. He can help raise awareness on the unfair distribution of care work especially with the difficult corona crisis and all the mental, economical, social crisis it creates.
For me the husband/dad should always have all these tasks in his job description…. but usually because of gender roles that are socially given the “father” prefers to play the role of the “only breadwinnner” “helping” his wife when he is very “generous” in normal “parenting roles”.
Something that Urgently Need to change.
#Carework #genderoles
Rita Chemaly
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