The Greens in Germany have demanded that Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (Social Democrats) give women in particular the right to work from home. “Working from home is particularly important for women in order to reconcile family and career,” said labor market politician Beate Müller-Gemmeke (Greens) to the “Tagesspiegel” in Berlin. It’s about time sovereignty and when you work, how long and where.
The background to this is a debate about the return from the home office to the office at companies such as SAP or Deutsche Bank. The coalition agreement already stipulates that employees should have the right to work from home in future. However, this depends on the respective profession. This goal has not yet been implemented.
Labor Minister Heil has so far only presented initial non-binding recommendations on occupational health and safety for hybrid VDU work. This is not enough for the Greens. The party is therefore calling for further protection of the right to work from home.
There has also been criticism from the trade unions. Daniel Gimpel, trade union secretary at Verdi, regrets that the project has been shelved: “The fundamental aim in future must be to enable self-determined mobile working from home.”
Love your enthusiasm, but slight problem in your argument. Women (or men) might not want to be stuck with the household job, maybe they want to do a different job themselves. Solution? Both partners should ideally be able to work part-time and take on half the household
ugh yes? I didn’t say women should be stuck with the household chores and if a full time position can sustain a family then 2 part time jobs can do the same. I thought that much was a given
Your note part could be interpreted as that, but that would require someone to interpret it in a vacuum without the surrounding sentences.
Just because you think it’s a given doesn’t mean people will be of the same opinion. You have to remember, ‘the norm’ is different everywhere, and a lot of places still have problems with the whole “women being the same species as men, and not some weird mysterious creature” thing.
Trust me, this happens even in civilized places like Germany. Just last Christmas someone who I considered to be a very good friend at that time tried to chat me up by asking to return me a book I’ve never lend him. Turns out his gf broke up with him, and he thought as long as he could get me to meet up with him, he could trick me to agree to be his new gf. He sincerely thought I wouldn’t be suspicious of him trying to meet up for such a weird thing, because in his own mind he simply couldn’t comprehend that I had the “rational thinking” to catch him in the act. We’re both university students btw.
I do get what you’re trying to say, but trust me, people are stupid, and will interpret your words to their liking, and they will usually not give you the benefit of the doubt.