Clothes hang from the laundry lines as a woman walks past residential buildings in Wuhan, China, on June 14, 2017.
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BEIJING – A Chinese court has ruled in a divorce case that a woman should receive about 50,000 Chinese yuan ($ 7,700) from her husband in compensation for five years of housework.
The ruling sparked an online debate this week over whether it was a fair price.
That’s about $ 128 a month, or a little over $ 1,500 a year. In terms of Chinese currency, the payment is about 10,000 yuan a year.
China has said the poorest earned an average of 9,808 yuan per person per year in 2019. That figure exceeds 3,416 yuan in 2015.
In this case, educated in Beijing’s southwest Fangshan district, the woman’s domestic work counted on the value of the intangible property, Judge Feng Miao told state media on Monday.
It was not immediately clear when the court ruling was issued. But it was the first such decision that referred to new provisions in China’s civil code that went into effect in January.