When chatting with a friend recently, we talked about gender equality issues. One of the issue is: After giving birth, if there is no help from the elders and no ability to hire a babysitter, should the husband give up work or the wife give up work?
In Taiwan, when one of the spouses must give up work, women are still considered to be the ones who should sacrifice their career for the family and stay at home to take care of their husbands and children.
I think this should be discussed in several points:
1. Who prefers to stay at home voluntarily and do household and care for children should give up the job
Who says only girls like to do laundry and take care of children at home? Without considering social opinions, there are also men who are skilled in cooking and housework. Many chefs are men, aren't they?
2. Whoever can create conditions that are more beneficial to the family.
It may be that whoever has a higher salary takes on the responsibility of supporting the family, or it may be that whoever has the ability to earn money at home stays home to work and take care of the children.