Are housework and family care duties equally distributed in couples? The video aims to highlight in which areas this situation is more unbalanced by displaying the quantity of workload that men or women do through a certain amount of objects, linked to a specific action, stacked or grouped.
Metaphor used:
The specific quantity of workload that men or women do, for each of the different types of houseworks, is represented through a certain amount of objects linked to that action stacked in their respective side of the screen: one side represents the work done by men and the other the one done by women.
Intended Meaning:
The aim is to emphasize the unbalanced distribution of the workload between men and women. It is interesting to see that the gap in housework still persist even today, in a society that is trying to reach equality in major fields like work and politics.
Source:
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