Co-responsibility and mental workload

Co-responsibility and mental workload

What is co-responsibility ?

Co-responsibility consists of equitably distributing domestic tasks and family responsibilities, including logistical and organizational issues, but also education and care of dependent people.

The unequal distribution of household and care tasks has a strong gender burden: historically, patriarchal society and machismo have meant that women have had to assume much more responsibility in this area than men. Today, any family, whatever its composition, should foster co-responsibility among its members, so that all people could distribute their time in the most fair way.

What is mental load ?

Mental workload is the constant, exhausting and invisible work of remembering all the tasks that need to be done, planning them, coordinating them and, many times, executing them, as well as making decisions.