by One in five women in China said last year that they regret getting marriedConcerns about domestic violence, household responsibilities and unequal public policies fuel their doubts about marriageWhy is this important economically? It is about a shifting informal economy as women wake up to unpaid work. It is not only individual but also cultural and institutional. The revolution supposedly liberated women and it did to a great extent in that education and occupational opportunities greatly increased. But cultures shift slowly and institutions often reflect cultural biases.While "system racism" as the new buzzword, systemic sexualism and gender-bias persist as cultural problems in most of the world to one degree or another.This is analogous to colonization, where one cohort is treated as
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One in five women in China said last year that they regret getting marriedWhy is this important economically? It is about a shifting informal economy as women wake up to unpaid work. It is not only individual but also cultural and institutional.
Concerns about domestic violence, household responsibilities and unequal public policies fuel their doubts about marriage
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Number of unhappy wives in China more than doubled since 2012
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The East Asian economies were all built on the same model of a modern export sector directed outward, and a domestic economy driven by a construction-industrial state that sprays concrete across the national landscape. It’s hardly surprising that they are facing the same social and demographic issues.
One thing they also share is brutal cultures of work overseen by patriarchal, authoritarian bosses. However you turn the prism to see Taiwan’s problems from a new angle, Boss Island, as Shieh Gwo-shyong’s (謝國雄) excellent 1993 book called it, remains the heart of the issue....