Moscow Announces Plans For 'Rent-A-Husband' Social Service

Guardian; Moscow’s city administration wants to offer the capital’s struggling residents a new social service – a husband for an hour, according to local news reports. City Hall want to rent ‘husbands’ to perform ‘men’s jobs’ in local households the service will be free for low-income families. The Moscow Times report

The hired “husbands” would be available to perform tasks traditionally viewed as a man’s job in a Russian household, such as replacing a leaky tap or putting up shelves, deputy chief of the City Hall’s social protection department Andrei Besshtanko told Izvestia newspaper.

The City Hall’s social service will be free of charge for low-income households and available at a moderate fee to others, the report said. Companies offering similar services already exist in Moscow’s private sector.  “Husband For An Hour Moscow” is one of several......GET GULL GIST @ Guardian