Amid the debate over the use of ChatGPT in education, elementary school teacher Stewart Brown tweeted last January noting that the tool allows teachers to reduce their workload. To demonstrate this, he added a video showing the OpenAI chatbot writing a series of classroom exercises based on instructions provided by Brown.

New times, new methods. This is an example of how technology, when used correctly, can facilitate certain processes and assist certain tasks. In this sense, the Ministry of Equality made a statement this week promising to put technological development at the service of the fight against gender inequality.

Announcements from Switzerland. Ángela Rodríguez, Minister of State for Equality, announced on Tuesday that “an app that allows families to count and distribute time spent on household chores” will be created “in the coming months”. This was announced by Rodriguez in his speech at the CEDAW (Spanish Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women) meeting held today in Geneva (Switzerland).

Distribute the tasks. The Minister of State for Equality, who presented the IX periodic report of the ministry in CEDAW, which analyzes the progress made in the field of women’s rights in Spain in recent years, aims to develop policies of joint responsibility and care, that the implementation will be created under the umbrella of the Joint Responsible Plan. The plan, which has a financing of 200 million euros per year, also provides for the preparation and submission of a “questionnaire on the use of time” by the INE “thirteen years later”, according to Rodríguez.

It’s like split. In statements to the EFE quoted by El País, the Minister of Foreign Affairs hoped that this app would be ready for use this summer. He also pointed out that it will be very similar to applications such as tricount and splitwise, which facilitate the accounting and sharing of common expenses, and allow the time spent on household chores to be counted.

Task categories. Of course, not all missions will be of the same value. In this sense, Rodríguez gave an example: “It may take 20 minutes to clean the kitchen, but for the above to happen someone had to shop (…), know what day it is to eat fish, and therefore. activate the shopping cart…”.

For family and roommates. According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, all these tasks, including their mental burden, fall mainly on women, so the Ministry is looking for a formula that will promote joint responsibility, that is, the balanced distribution of domestic duties. In this sense, the Government’s will is to expand the scope of this practice’s action beyond traditional heterosexual couples: Ángela Rodríguez affirmed that the ‘app’ can record the division of tasks between parents and children as well as “between colleagues, sometimes on an unequal division of tasks, or between life”. .

Consultable statistics. In addition, the application will work with “time balances” that calculate the time spent by “each family unit” on household chores, and will generate searchable weekly and monthly statistics with a recent report of 20 minutes. Also, the newspaper states that the Ministry of Equality has contracted Wairbut services for 211,750 euros to develop the app.

They work harder. Regarding the unequal distribution of housework, the OECD recently published a report that found that women in Spain spend more than twice as many hours doing housework as men: five and two, respectively. In addition, according to the data of the European Institute for Gender Equality, 84% of women do housework in our country, while this rate is 42% for men.

New fighting methods. Ángela Rodríguez leveraged the CEDAW meeting to announce the use of a mobile app to justify the Government’s achievements in terms of Equality and promote shared responsibility. The Ministry, headed by Irene Montero, appears to be imitating hundreds of young people from the Middle East who, with the support of UN Women, have developed a puzzle game app called WeRise, whose theme is the promotion of gender equality.

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