A purpose of the report in El Mercurio: "Unpublished INE study finds little help from men in domestic work"
"Measuring checks the myth that Women bear the brunt of housework and aims to achieve in Chile, as other countries are doing that these activities are recognized as a basic support for the production of other areas of the national economy. "El Mercurio, 29/03/2009
Whenever we stood in front of a pot, take a broom or a board, we cherish our children, care for our elderly parents or sick of our families, we are working . Everyone seems to ignore it, every time a woman denies these obligations is morally judged and condemned by a society which seems see us agotadísimas natural and stressed because of the difficult task of managing a household with poverty wages that gives the employer.
And it's a full time job in which there is no statutory holidays or time of collation, in which we have no rental or contract, no wage nor by a chance to renounce him, that is, a job not recognized as such or unpaid, and, moreover, is undoubtedly attributable to us: women workers and poor since the rich, the wives of rich businessmen in this country women entrepreneurs and women "power" are released him to shore, precisely, exploiting another woman deprived of wealth and property that has no tool to survive but to sell their labor power, this woman, then goes home to practice exactly the same job, but now free, without any of the miserable crumbs rights as he gave the employer ... So pass endless hours of thousands of women were housewives or working women of all shapes, assume the entire burden of domestic chores, without the possibility of rest for the mere fact of being women, workers and poor.
Studies show that domestic work unpaid is between 35% and 75% of gross domestic product of nations, which it looks fabulous to employers that saves millions because it considered the job if you should increase the salary of all employees since the maintenance of a human being has its costs: they care that we continue to do so for free and this is very convenient, then, that work remains a "naturalized" of women.
From this perspective, the central problem does not lie in the absence of a salary. It is indeed a problem of economic roots: it is a job and not get paid, but this is not unlike any unpaid work such as that performed the fire (eg weak but valid), the specificity of this work is that it is regarded as inevitable and "natural" destiny of a woman - for that work ideologically Assistant serving the Church to the employer - although in reality, we know that we are the workers and poor who are actually convicted. Based on the above is that we talk about the actual existence of gender-neglected tasks, like we do care for the elderly and the sick society that rejects for not being productive. Thus, it is precisely that we conclude that a salary does not solve the cause and effect produces this division of labor, which is a structural logic of capitalism to emaciated face sexist and that the main beneficiaries are the employers, employers and owners of the means of production.
From Bread and Roses, we believe that the solution to this problem is not a salary, or an individual output, such as would ask that the work be shared, even if a man breaks progressive with male prejudice, we believe that these tasks should be socialized, it is indeed possible, otherwise the capitalists have not developed dining (restaurants) or service laundries are being in the hands of businessmen today will serve to make a profit, but potentially include confirmation that it is possible to move these tasks to be transferred from the private to public, for us, socialized, free, to serve the working class and poor people, this socialization can only be taken until the end of the working class as a whole class comprised of both men and women ... Women, gender unites us, the class divides us
End tasks by gender relegated!
for the socialization of housework!
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BREAD AND ROSES - TERESA FLORES
Trotskyist BCC / INDEPENDENT
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