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The Minister of Finance, Ignacio Briones, joined the Mineduc call for kindergartens and schools reopen of the country, because it would also have the added benefit of restoring jobs.
In response to critics who point out that the employment subsidy would not be such a great incentive for companies to hire women versus men, Briones said in What Remains of the Day that “the problem does not refer exclusively” to the benefit of that program, but rather “is much more general, more systemic and relates to other parts of the equation”, as is the possibility that employees should not stay home to care for their children.
In that sense, he acknowledged that “our debate is characterized by the complete opposition of many sectors to even thinking about opening the gardens and schools. We think it is a profound error, because in a still macho society like the one we have in Chile Although children depend on a father and mother, we agree that this affects a woman’s job prospects much more“.
The minister indicated that there is “a second dimension, which is perhaps as deep or deeper, which is the effect on the education of these children and the huge inequality gaps, which we know we have in our country. “
“When children do not go to school, those from more affluent families have the possibility of having their classes electronically, their parents have a cultural capital that allows them to supplement or compensate for the fact that they do not go to school, reading to them, teaching them. it does not happen in a vulnerable home, and that gap that already existed, and which was a drama in our country and which is tremendously unfair, can only increase, “he explained.
Therefore, the Secretary of State concluded that “we have a moral duty as a country to ask ourselves this uncomfortable question for many, and assume it with responsibility, with the safeguards, with the protocols of the case, and as the Government we are going to be there – the Minister of Education has indicated it – for the political will and of society as a whole to advance in a reopening, take the measures and have the resources to make that happen. “
