A revolutionary technology will reach our devices this coming summer. It is an application, created by the Ministry of Equality, to count the time that each member of a household spends on domestic chores. One more way, as explained by the Secretary of State for Equality, Ángela Rodríguez Pam, to combat gender inequality and count how many hours women work and how many men.
The news of this new tool was the subject of debate this Thursday in El Hormiguero, where Juan del Val not only has not bitten his tongue (something usual for him), but has also lashed out hard against this app.
According to a recent report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), women in Spain spend more than twice as many hours on tasks as men (5 compared to 2 in the case of men).
Hence, the new tool created by the Ministry of Equality, "very similar" to those used to share the expenses of a trip, such as Splitwise or Tricount, aims to break this inequality and make the distribution of household chores more equitable. .
During the El Hormiguero gathering this Thursday, Pablo Motos brought up this issue, which caused different reactions among his collaborators. "The substance of the matter seems good to me," Cristina Pardo began by saying, "because I think there is still a lot of inequality in the distribution of tasks."
For her part, Tamara Falcó assured that the majority of people who could benefit from this application were not actually going to download it.
Then came Juan del Val, one of the most written with this new tool to contribute to gender equality. "It gives me the feeling that the Ministry of Equality has too much money that has to be spent, because this cannot be understood," he argued, referring several times to the cost of this tool, 211,000 euros.
A money that is used, and here the writer emphasizes again, "to see who how we distribute the household chores." Therefore, Del Val, pulling irony, proposed to buy a notebook, which "is worth one euro" and write down the tasks of each one. "Nuria, I don't know what, I have taken the garbage down," he specified.
"An app of 211,000 euros to say you have ironed and I have scrubbed", he said in the most astonished way, to finish qualifying this topic with "we are completely imbeciles". For her part, Nuria Roca supported her husband's argument, stating that "it is absurd, it does not solve anything", but not because it costs 211,000 euros, it would also be if it cost 100 euros.
