That's a LOT of chores.
A man in Argentina has to pay his ex-wife €160,000 in compensation after she gave up her career for 27 years of chores.
The woman, who's now 70, has an economics degree but left her job to become a housewife and raise their kids during their 29-year marriage.
The pair tied the knot in 1982 but separated in 2011 and divorced by 2011, by which time the woman was in her 60s and considered "too old" to find work. Therefore, Judge Victoria Famá ruled the woman faced financial hardship while the man, also 70, had a "good time".
The judge compared the work the woman put in to the household and family with the work the husband did and determined a payout of 8million pesos, Pretty52 reports.
"This verdict is very novel because it acknowledges that what we do in our homes is a job. Care tasks are a job because they involve time, effort and skill," Lucia Martelotte, deputy executive director of the Latin American Justice and Gender Team, told Argentinian news outlet Clarín.
"But this goes unseen and women do not get a salary for that."
"The economic dependence of wives on their husbands is one of the central mechanisms through which women are subordinated to society," according to the judge's landmark ruling.
"In most families, women still mainly assume the burden of domestic chores and the care of children, even when they perform some external activity," it continued.
The judge added that someone with fewer qualifications than this woman in question, that didn't leave an existing job, wouldn't be entitled to the same compensation.
