What are the challenges of women telecommuting? / Housewives, like workers, must receive childbearing wages!

Family group: After the announcement of the permission for telecommuting of mothers with children under 6 years old, with the permission of the employer in the days of Corona, many positive and negative reactions about this news were published in cyberspace. Some considered this telecommuting to be a very good event in the field of women’s work and believed that the employer’s permission to telecommute allows mothers to attend work without losing their job or without the stress and anxiety of being away from their children. Continue their work and do not lose their job. Opponents also argued that “telecommuting” would eventually eliminate women from the work and administrative systems, and that employers would prefer to employ men and mothers on the pretext of motherhood and allow telecommuting and long-term leave, even if they were more qualified. Have none of these problems.

On the same pretext, we talked to Ms. Fereshteh Vali-Morad, an activist in the field of women and the family, about the problems of women’s employment and the issue of telecommuting.

Opponents of women’s telecommuting argue that this means removing women from office over time, and that this is not only to the advantage of women but also to their detriment. What do you think about this?

It depends entirely on the performance of women themselves, whether they take telecommuting as a means of rest and unemployment, or perform their duties better and more efficiently than at work. Whatever the job, whether governmental or non-governmental, it must be done. A person can be at work but stay on the ground or be a teleworker but be more productive.

However, telecommuting depends on the type of work the woman does and the set in which it is defined. For example, service work or service cannot be defined as telecommuting. Secretary, telephony, head of banking departments, various affairs that the client has. Such things can not be done remotely.

Jobs that are said to be allowed by the supervisor are correct because he approves the type of work and the amount of necessity to be present at the workplace and specifies the amount of work that is required to be present at the workplace or teleworking a few days and hours a week. . Of course, unfortunately, people sometimes have personal issues with each other. For this reason, the top manager may allow someone to work remotely but not allow anyone else. However, the law allows this to happen with the permission of the superior manager. But, of course, there must be a place where I can raise an issue if a telecommuting employee complains about his or her superior.

Some believe that society has happened to move in the direction that employers prefer to work with telecommuting; Because in case of hiring staff, they have to give him the system, facilities, rooms and services. This is not the case in telecommuting. So how true is this and can it benefit women?

Well, this is a privilege for women applying for telecommuting. Yes, especially in these two years, the corona flowed this way and the past fears of telecommuting disappeared. The Fifth Development Law called for women to be able to work remotely. I know faculty members who decided to have children right away in Corona. Then they ran the classes from home and were on top of their children. But not everything works. Some can not be measured and some can not be measured. In the days of online classes, he can hold his class anywhere. He comes to the university except when he has to see the students. But some things are not measurable and require a full presence.

If someone is a procrastinator, he will be fired at work, let alone telecommuting! In general, we can not talk about general telecommuting. Obviously jobs are categorized and telecommuting is possible for some jobs and not for others. Some tasks can be done remotely, and eventually, when the need arises, the person comes to work. But some do not

When a person is obliged to deliver his work after two hours, the telecommuting person does not interrupt the work, because if the work is not done on time, the work cycle will be disrupted. In fact, the work is like a chain, so they have to deliver the work on time and the work does not stay on the ground.

It is said that the approval of mothers’ telecommuting should be with the opinion of the top manager, and well, not every senior manager accepts it, and some say that the same name of telecommuting causes women to be removed from government jobs. Because the employer, especially in government centers, is less interested in women.

The work must be able to be seen and examined from the perspective of the employer. Things that need to be done remotely need to be such that the employer is not harmed. From this point of view, if telecommuting is seen as equivalent to unemployment, then this is true. It is necessary to look at this issue in a big way. If you say that women are telecommuters, have 9 months maternity leave, have 4 months of teleworking for pregnancy, and during this time another person has to do the work of that woman. Yes, the employer may not have the opinion of the lady force.

On this account, how can the problem of women leaving the work cycle be removed from women?

First, in our country, where it is important that the mother, along with the role of mother, can be an active social and economic element, it is necessary to define this type of work environment. Unfortunately, we have defined work and working hours regardless of the role of mother. If necessary, new beds should be opened for women’s work. Not to close the way it is or to narrow the conditions for women. Rather, it is necessary to define new ways, strategies and forms and provide facilities so that mothers can have a strong and active social and economic presence in addition to playing the role of wife and mother.

Why do we have this problem?

We have defined our working model and working hours separately from the issue of men and women. If we had to define work in such a way that women could define tasks for themselves that fit their other plans. For example, the possibility of working hours. This model of work, in which everyone has to go to work from 8 am to 4 pm, is sometimes in conflict with other roles of a woman, but she does it because she has difficulty doing other types of work. We need to define and strengthen other solutions that do not necessarily have to work only in this work model as an employee and at certain hours, otherwise he loses his job. We had to define a model of work so that women would not be harmed by their busy schedules. This is the lack of system and officials.

Where do you think the problem is?

The biggest problem is that we have not been able to define and build our system according to our desired point. We were a copycat. Another issue is the fatness of the government. What do we want to do with all this wide and long government apparatus? The government must be small and agile and outsource its work. Once this was done, women could easily come in and pick up the work and do it. But because the government is fat, it is fat and inefficient. Our hiring is the same. Where in the world do you have so many government employees? In Iran, many want to become government employees and employees. I think there should be a change in the field of women if the parliament and the government help. They must have a new perspective and a new plan. Now it has its possibilities. Startups and knowledge-based organizations can be a good solution along with the same handicrafts and home-based businesses and rural businesses. Or, for example, students who study at universities in any field and learn a profession can form a collective company and occupation for themselves. These disciplines can organize and employ and do projects for themselves. This can be done. If it has not been done in bold so far, it is because the road has not been paved. The problem is that in the field of women, especially everything political has been dealt with. Even the projects have been given to the political current along with the governments. Political affiliates take projects from the government and do them themselves, and everyone strengthens their political current with the property and facilities of the treasury.

You said in part that even housewives should be paid for childbearing. Can you explain about this?

Working women have something called maternity leave, which pays them 9 months of paid leave. This means that they get paid for what they do not do. In our country, salaries are from oil money. My point is that if a government employee is paid 9 months for what he does not do, that is, he is on leave, they should also give this salary to the housewife. In other words, working women and housewives are equal in that they do nothing for the government after giving birth. If a working woman takes 9 months off and receives her salary, a housewife must also receive these 9 months of salary. Both are equal in what they do not do for the government.

Both working women and housewives are equal in the responsibilities of caring for their babies and breastfeeding and caring for their babies. Why don’t we give this money to both of them? Doesn’t a housewife have a share of oil? Incidentally, my biggest criticism of the population youth law is that housewives have been ignored. You just have to be more discriminating with the help you render toward other people.

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