For many Germans is the promise of the prospect of the Home Office is a Healing. 68 percent support, according to a survey of the projects of the Federal Minister of labour, Hubertus Heil, the right to work from home. Among other things, because flexible Working is seen as an important factor for a better compatibility of family, leisure and work.

A dream, as now turns out. A study comes to the conclusion that the domestic Desk, no discharge of workers taking place. But simply more work. And that this additional form of self-exploitation, depending on the different gender impact. Thus, mothers invest more time in child care, fathers in your Job.

a Home Office creates negative incentives to the already existing, blatant amplified imbalance in the childcare. The classic distribution of roles between women and men is strengthened.

This is not a good Signal.

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fathers are still the breadwinners

all the people in the week of international women’s day which casts a gloomy picture on gender justice in this country: Yet it is always attributed to the father tends to be the breadwinner role in the family, while the mother of the domestic work role. Often it is made men harder than women, the employer time for family obligations enforce. It desperately needs guidelines and incentives for enterprises, as well as fathers, the breaking of these traditional models.

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template for the exam, the SPD calls for law on home office

Some examples of the who contributed to the study researcher Yvonne Lott: The number of months the parental allowance could be increased. Men should also be made in the future, the part-time work more palatable. In addition, the income splitting, which is obviously conducive to an unequal distribution of power between parents should be abolished. But as long as supposedly progressive proposals to promote the reconciliation of work and family, in which they reinforce traditional gender roles, can not be ‘progress’.