What if the work of Moroccan women at home was remunerated? – Telquel.ma

Lhe domestic work is productive work, essential to the functioning of capital, but made invisible because it escapes salary relationships.”This sentence by Mariarosa Dalla Costa, sociologist, writer and Italian feminist militant, dates from 1974. She is taken from her book co -wrote with Selma James, The power of women and social subversion. Fifty years later, it remains topical.

“In the event of a divorce, a woman must be able to assert her rights, even if she has not exercised paid activity outside the home”

Bouchra Abdou, director of the Tahadi association for equality and citizenship (ATEC)

In Morocco, as elsewhere, the domestic work of women remains invisible and little recognized. He does not appear in the accounts of the national economy, and those who benefit from it, namely men first, do not always consider him a real work. The proof? The criticisms that surrounded one of the flagship provisions of the new Moudawana, announced last December by the Minister of Justice, Abdellatif Ouahbi. Although the final text of the reform has not yet been revealed, Morocco is on the way to establishing a new supervision of the goods acquired during the marriage. The goal is to go to a “Valuation of the wife’s work within the home, considering it as a contribution to development“Of these goods, he had explained.