On Monday, Julie Fox took to TikTok to urge parents to buy their children cleaning tools rather than toys.
People have called for home economic classes to be brought back into the classroom.
It will not only begin to reduce societal stereotypes, though.
It will also help students become more equipped to complete simple tasks in life when they’re in the real world.
But on talking about decreasing the gap between genders…
Over the last half-century, across the developed world, more and more women have gone to work, the gender pay gap has been steadily narrowing, and fathers have spent more time with their children.
But, it’s still widely misconstrude that women are the worker bees around the homes of them and their significant other.
While stereotypes placed women in the kitchen and men out working, one school is trying to change that stereotype by teaching them that is not just a woman’s job to be the housemaker.
Because the statistics are a little bit shocking.
Studies have found that married American mothers spend almost twice as much time on housework and child care than married fathers do.
American men did an average of fifteen minutes of housework each day…
But it’s a different statistic for women.
Women did forty-five minutes of housework a day, by comparison, the American Time Use Study found.
But, there are some countries that do it a little differently.
Like Spain, for example.
Whose women have less societal pressure to complete more housework than men.
So, let’s ask the question…
Why are Spanish women under less pressure to maintain their households?
Well there’s an amazing answer to that question.
A Spanish school has recently received praise for its innovative approach to normalizing household chores amongst its male pupils.
And it increases the life skills of those who haven’t yet been taught how to do certain things around the home.
Such as cooking, cleaning, sewing, bedmaking, and washing clothes.
Of course, some of the students were a little unsure at first because what kind of teenager wants to do chores?
But, once they discovered how easy and enjoyable the tasks could be, they soon warmed up to the idea.
They learned a lot, too.
Including that household chores are not a woman’s responsibility.
But, that’s not all.
Stella Maris College in Manly, Australia, has decided to teach sixteen-year-old girls how to change tires and check the oil levels in cars — a job stereotypically reserved for males.
And it’s actually quite exciting.
“Car educators” Galmatic reached out to the school to gauge interest in the subject…
And after working together, they finally launched its delivery.
The company is dedicated to “helping Australian women and teenagers feel comfortable behind the wheel through our hands-on car maintenance workshops and online courses.”
People have called for home economics to be brought back to the classroom…
In hopes that it will further decrease the gender gap and increase life skills that can’t be taught in other subjects on the curriculum.
In fact, the family and consumer science skills you can learn in a classroom, will certainly help future generations with things that generations now have struggled with once they left school.
And according to crafty.diply.com, a recent NPR report the economic classes “might now include subjects such as community gardening, composting, and even hydroponics.”
One things for sure…
It certainly would have been a helpful class to participate in during high school for us, and although we figured it out on our own, a push would have been even better!
Julia Fox certainly agrees with the concept…
As she recently took to TikTok to urge parents to buy their children cleaning tools instead of toys.
The Italian actress discovered that her nineteen-month-old son, named Valentino, no longer cares for toys.
“He is actually more interested in what I’m doing,”she boasted to her 1.5 million followers.
“So I suggest that everyone buy their kid a mini-mop and mini-broom and start teaching them those life skills really young, so when they enter the real world they don’t have to outsource for everything.
“And they know how to do things for themselves. I think that’s really important,” she said.
In her TikTok video, Fox discussed the ideas surrounding “the concept of childhood.”
She claimed that it convinces parents to buy certain things their child just doesn’t need.
“I think that the idea of childhood was invented as a way to just get parents to spend a lot of money on sh*t that’s… not really teaching your kid anything.
“You just end up kind of raising a kid that’s like helpless and doesn’t know what to do,” she said.
The video has since gone viral and gained over 2 million views.
You can watch Fox’s video here.
What do you think?