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"We Spanish women are too clean, and we aren't good enough at moaning," Ms Uria said. She said that despite the focus on Spanish women's onerous housework burden the new laws were directed at men who foisted the responsibility of care for their elderly parents on their wives.

While Spain's women daily perform at least six hours of housework, men clock up only 44 minutes - plus 51 minutes of childcare to their spouses' daily average of six hours.

Four in 10 Spanish men do no housework at all, surveys show, and more than 30 per cent believe women should not work outside the family home. Under the new law men and women will pledge to "share domestic responsibilities and the care and attention" of young children and ageing relatives.

The new egalitarian domestic regime could dramatically alter the state of divorce in Spain, because judges will now consider men's commitment to this pledge when ruling on separations and access to children.

Attempts to blast Spanish males out of their cosy reliance on women as girlfriends, wives, chefs, cleaners, childcarers and custodians of the elderly include technological changes to household appliances.

The latest washing machine, named "Your Turn", prevents the same person - typically a wife and mother - from using the appliance consecutively by adopting fingerprint recognition technology.

Where the Boys Aren't

For young males, the drift away from academic achievement is a trend

By Robert A. Jones

Oskaloosa, Iowa