Men with aprons in Frankfurt on the occasion of 8 March

A group of activists from the Care Revolution network in Frankfurt am Main carried out an "apron campaign" on 5 March 2016 to mark International Women's Day. Four male statues were dressed in aprons bearing the inscription: "We men demand: Equal share of unpaid care work. Unconditional basic income for all to be able to do this work." With this campaign, we want to draw attention to the importance of the invisible work that is mostly done by women, usually unpaid. These activities are indispensable and form the basis of human coexistence, as they fulfil the most basic human needs. Nevertheless, they are denied the status of work. As a result, this work does not give rise to any pension entitlements, which those who spend a lot of their lives doing it often feel painfully in old age. With this campaign on International Women's Day, we want to point out that there is not only a pay gap in our society, discrimination in pay for equal work based on gender, but also a care gap, discrimination in the performance of largely unpaid care work based on gender. Women do 80% of the care work. Only the remaining 20% is done by men. The "shortened" monuments to men are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Heinrich Heine and Ludwig van Beethoven. They are located on Goetheplatz and in the Taunusanlage.