Considering the PAS of all types of schools and educational levels, 79% of the members are women in Catalonia and 38% of the associations are women all those associated with AMPA. The URL 0 has given these data to address a daily topic: in the long work, tasks, organization, management, information, training, etc. Most are mothers, due to the often voluntary obligations. “Participation in PAS is not attractive to men, as it is an invisible job and is related to the care and education of children,” the report states. The mother still has the greatest weight in the education of her children.

The Generalitat has launched a program to involve men in the associations of fathers and mothers, with an investment of 460,000 euros: basically, it has launched workshops aimed at men in the care and education of children, and in Euskal Herria there are also sessions aimed at emergency parents who seek greater involvement in the education of daughters and sons. But, as they say in the report, men must walk the path in terms of commitment and personal involvement: “Paternity is a window to leave aside the obsolete model, this phase of life forces us to decide whether we want to reproduce the experience of being a child or whether we want to build something different in relation to the relationship of our children”.

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We have recently asked in ARGIA expert Esther Martínez if she is changing the traditional role mentioned: “It has changed, and in parent schools, for example, some parents participate, we see parents taking other functions. But most parent schools are still mothers, mothers take the role of educating and still have the feeling of being saturated, tired, stressed, without partner support... We can say that, although the distribution of functions is clearer, the mother continues to plan what is planned, what is there for dinner, what needs to be put on the knife when there is gymnastics, what to do in summer and how to organize it.”

And it's significant that, in education, the higher you do in the centers of power, the more men you can see. Susana Aribayos, a member of the Maximum Representative Body or the ARGIA School Council, said: “In our case, although we are more mothers, they are also fathers, and during these years I have seen a rise in male participation. However, it is true that you see more men at decision-making points like this, than acts organized by parent associations, that is, I have seen few men preparing chocolate.”

When we talk about school issues, this professor said that in 2018 he often heard the phrase “my wife takes him”, how much has the picture changed?