armchairlawyer wrote: ↑Sat Apr 09, 2022 9:14 am
Rousseau argued that a law on housework was necessary because “we have hardly progressed at all since the 1970s”. She said men had only increased the time spent on domestic chores by 14 minutes since then, and that if the current rate of change continued, it would take 6,300 years to achieve equality in France.

armchairlawyer wrote: ↑Sat Apr 09, 2022 9:14 am Almost half of French people back a proposal to make it a criminal offence to shirk domestic chores, according to a new poll.

The survey for the Ifop institute also found that if the proposal was implemented, 14 per cent of respondents would be prepared to file a criminal lawsuit against their spouses or partners for failing to do their share of the housework.

The idea was floated last month by Sandrine Rousseau, 50, a self-styled eco-feminist, after she was dismissed as a campaign adviser by Yannick Jadot, 54, the Europe-Ecology-The Greens presidential candidate, for being too radical.

“I would like there to be . . . an offence of non-sharing of domestic chores because I think private lives are political,” she said.

Rousseau argued that a law on housework was necessary because “we have hardly progressed at all since the 1970s”. She said men had only increased the time spent on domestic chores by 14 minutes since then, and that if the current rate of change continued, it would take 6,300 years to achieve equality in France.

Women, she added, devoted on average ten hours and 30 minutes more a week to housework than men and should be given the right to initiate criminal proceedings against their partners.

Under the proposed law, people would be able to report work-shy spouses and partners to the police, prompting an investigation and a possible prosecution.
Most media outlets initially dismissed her idea, before being taken aback by the findings of the poll of 1,992 people. A total of 50 per cent of women and 44 per cent of men approved of the idea.

A further 15 per cent of women said they would “probably or certainly” file a criminal lawsuit against their partners to “force them to take their share of domestic and parental tasks”.

A total of 13 per cent of men said they were also ready to file a lawsuit against their wives or partners for the same reason.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fren ... -kbx3j83bc

Most media outlets initially dismissed her idea, before being taken aback by the findings of the poll of 1,992 people. A total of 50 per cent of women and 44 per cent of men approved of the idea.

Under the proposed law, people would be able to report work-shy spouses and partners to the police, prompting an investigation and a possible prosecution.