Bishop of Bilbao calls on men to also assume their responsibility in care, which falls on women
He denounces that in the world of the economy “everything that has to do with free care is neither considered nor exists”
BILBAO, 15 ago. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Bishop of Bilbao, Joseba Segura, made an appeal this Monday to men to also assume their responsibility in the care and domestic tasks that fall, above all, on women.
Segura made this statement during his homily at the mass presided over by the Bishop of Bilbao for the day of the ‘Amatxu de BegoƱa’, in which he denounced, as, that “in the world of the economy, everything that has to do with with free care, it is neither considered nor exists”.
The prelate has highlighted that domestic and care work, which are “essential, have fallen and continue to fall, in large part, on women”, and has encouraged them to “share them”. In this sense, he has established men to assume their responsibility and that they are not limited to “valuing the great contribution of women”.
In his opinion, “it does not occur to anyone to underestimate the importance” of essential activities for daily life such as the family care of children, people with special needs or the elderly.
“However, for the economy so dominant in modern thought, unpaid activities do not exist”, he lamented, to warn that “the day that mutual care work is understood and sold, society will stop human being”.