Achieving Gender Equality: Team #13 by Ronaldo García Piña

Facts about gender roles in the house

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About 91 % of women with children spend at least an hour per day on housework, compared with 30 % of men with children.

Research shows that the parental role model is the primary mechanism for entrenching gender roles in terms of housework responsibilities.

Housework services are often provided by migrant women or women from a lower socioeconomic background, and the resulting income is frequently undeclared.

Parents' opinions

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What do they think about the information you learned?
They think that gender equality is important for the society.
Is the gender inequality situation true for our society, for our home?
Not for our homes, but that is a reality nowadays.
Is there anything you as a son/daughter can do to ease the burden or reduce the work load?
We can help at the housework, like cleaning or cooking.
What did you learn from talking to your parents?
We learned that they're conscious about gender inequality and they do the best to be everybody equal.

Proposed actions

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Action 1: Force the government to take serious actions when gender violence situation is discovered. Most of the time, when the authorities hear about a gender violence or something related, they just give that as seen.

Action 2: Encourage financial inclusion, for the women to have the same economical income as the man. Over a billion women are excluded from traditional banking services such as credit, savings, and money transfers.

Action 3: Discuss gender equality with family in their homes, in many developed countries and societies, it can be tempting to take women's freedom for granted for them to be in charge of the home labors.

Action 4: Speak out against gender violence, almost one in three women and girls have experienced physical and/or emotional abuse in their lifetime.

Action 5: Support the women businesses, seeking out small businesses owned by women directly supports them and their families or communities. Studies show that women-owned companies are more likely to create jobs in healthcare, food services, and other social sector industries than those owned by men.