The Russian Housewives are suggested to pay benefits

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the Leader of LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky proposed to assign payment for Housewives. The bill the politician is planning to introduce in the state Duma. About this newspaper “Izvestia”.

“They cook, wash, clean, raise children, drive them to school or daycare, go to the store, doing all the household chores. It’s heavy, exhausting, monotonous work”, – said the Deputy.

According to Zhirinovsky, a payment is proposed to be set at a level slightly exceeding the level of the minimum wage (SMIC). There are about 12 thousand rubles.

it is Reported that some Duma deputies agreed with the proposal of the leader of LDPR. The part of legislators at the same time, considers the initiative a “reasonable populism”.

In September 2019 in the state Duma assessed the proposal to legalize the occupation “housewife” with the appointment of payments in the amount of the subsistence minimum. The head of the Duma Committee on labor, social policy and veterans ‘ Affairs Yaroslav Nilov called to consider the issue of gender equality and described the initiative as “hard sold”.

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