The position of women in society has developed a lot in the last years basically due to the change that suppose their incorporation in the field of remunerated labour. In spite of this, the equal and democratic principles are overimposing to the traditional habits, to a family organisational model designed for a world in which men and women support different roles and different responsabilities. Traditionally, men were entrusted with the resources providing meanwhile houseworking was associated with women.

Houseworking is essential for society survival, but its attention makes that people who assume it in solitarily, usually have to resign its own project of personal life, in order to devote itself to these responsabilities, or they have to make an enormous effort to make compatible personal, family and labour life.

If we continue to reproduce the sexual division of the work through, the transmission of values and functions connected to gender, then the family and labour responsabilities will continue to accumulate for women in general. But a democratic society has to base on a model of equal relationships among people.

Thus, it is necessary to create a new model of cooperation and commitment between women and men that allows a well-balanced distribution of responsabilities in the professional and private life, breaking with the traditional roles assignment: in the same way that women have integrated in the production world, men have to assume their responsabilities in the domestic field.

The co-responsibility or the responsabilities shared assumption involves the existence of a balance in the decision making, responsibilities and time distribution, and it is the only possible way in order to allow the personal and professional development of each person, without a resignation of one of these two fields.

Opting for this distribution produces a mutual benefit, building more equal relationships, reducing the couple pressures and increasing the leisure time for all in an equal manner.