HIBAPRESS – Rabat
Naïma Benyahya, the Minister of Solidarity, Social Inclusion, and Family, considered that women's housework is a product of unpaid services, such as caring for the family, cleaning, and cooking.
Benyahya said, during a question-and-answer session in the House of Councilors on Tuesday, that women do the largest part of housework without compensation, adding that they dedicate about 90 percent of their time to the home.
Benyahya stressed that recognizing housework is a restoration of dignity for housewives, because they do everything from care, cleaning, and drying, in addition to raising children and going out to shop for household supplies.
The Minister stressed that the government cannot leave housewives in the shadows, highlighting that Moroccan women cannot play many essential roles without recognition.
The government official reviewed a number of measures taken in a group of countries, which value women's work in homes, through their access to social protection, or the inclusion of working hours at home within national work indicators.
Among these measures that the minister recounted is that women receive a pension in the absence of other paid work, in addition to financial compensation for mothers and wives, and the calculation of years of raising children in retirement.
