Video. Seven dead as migrant boat capsizes off Canary Islands
Emergency services said the sudden shift caused many to fall into the water. Four women and three children lost their lives in the incident.
Officers from the national police, dockworkers, and members of local diving clubs took part in the rescue efforts. Emergency teams from SUC and the Red Cross provided medical support at the scene. Two children, both in serious condition, were airlifted to hospital for further treatment.
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He says the gender gap in household chores has shrunk significantly among the app's users – from women doing about twice as much as men, to a gap that's been reduced by 60 per cent, which Fredrikson calls a 'huge improvement'. The developers say users report that the app is an integral part of their lives and has improved their day-to-day. Lina-Marie Lundqvist works part-time as a special educator at a preschool and uses Accord. She said the app has made a 'big difference' for her household with her partner, kids and pets. 'Now there are tasks that are distributed clearly, and everyone has taken responsibility for taking this,' Lundqvist says. 'I don't have to be the project manager and be the initiator all the time. 'Can you empty the dishwasher?', 'Can you do this?', 'Can you do that?'. So now the kids and my partner can do things without me having to be the initiator,' she added. 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So, for example, she hated doing the dishes, but had no problem cooking, even though that took longer than doing the dishes. So for her, the fairness in distribution was less about splitting chores down the middle by minutes and more about balancing the tasks that drained her compared to energising her,' Fredrikson said. 'And that's what we've been doing with adding on effort points, where you can weigh the tasks depending on how difficult they are and how much you feel that they're taking from you,' he added. In Lundqvist's household, she says, she still does most of the chores since she works part-time while her partner works full-time. 'But you look at these circles [in the dashboard] where you can see in the app how many tasks have been done, and then you can really see with the colour scale that we are being helped, that there is a 'team spirit' in a different way,' she said. She also believes it's not about splitting everything exactly down the middle, but about feeling seen and supported. 'When I got home from work one day and the laundry was folded and the dishwasher was unpicked without me even having to remind. It was such a hallelujah moment,' Lundqvist added. For more on this story, watch the video in the media player above.
