Changing attitudes of women Till death do I stay single: #NoMarriage women of S. Korea
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"I've always felt that, as a woman, there are more disadvantages than advantages to being married,"
nation's radical feminist movement "4B" or the "Four Nos": no dating, no sex, no marriage, and no child-rearing.
Marriage rates are plummeting in South Korea, where wives are expected to work, raise children, and care for ageing in-laws with little state or community help.
well-educated friends hitting barriers at work and experiencing problems at home after having children.
A growing number of women are turning their backs on the traditional expectations of South Korea's male-dominated society, where working wives spend four times more time on domestic chores than their husbands.
These groups are emerging against a backdrop of anger over South Korea's spycam porn epidemic, whose victims are mostly women, and cases of sexual misconduct uncovered in the global #MeToo movement.
"The four categories - marriage, motherhood, dating and sex - often put women in subordinate position to men... and what is represented in 'corset' is also similar - that women need to look certain ways to please men,"
South Korea's total fertility rate dropped to 0.98 in 2018, far below the 2.1 needed to keep a population stable.
For qns on gender and traditions, marriage....
Qn: Should both parents take equal responsibility for raising their children? (Cam. 2019)
"I've always felt that, as a woman, there are more disadvantages than advantages to being married,"
nation's radical feminist movement "4B" or the "Four Nos": no dating, no sex, no marriage, and no child-rearing.
Marriage rates are plummeting in South Korea, where wives are expected to work, raise children, and care for ageing in-laws with little state or community help.
well-educated friends hitting barriers at work and experiencing problems at home after having children.
A growing number of women are turning their backs on the traditional expectations of South Korea's male-dominated society, where working wives spend four times more time on domestic chores than their husbands.
These groups are emerging against a backdrop of anger over South Korea's spycam porn epidemic, whose victims are mostly women, and cases of sexual misconduct uncovered in the global #MeToo movement.
"The four categories - marriage, motherhood, dating and sex - often put women in subordinate position to men... and what is represented in 'corset' is also similar - that women need to look certain ways to please men,"
South Korea's total fertility rate dropped to 0.98 in 2018, far below the 2.1 needed to keep a population stable.
For qns on gender and traditions, marriage....
Qn: Should both parents take equal responsibility for raising their children? (Cam. 2019)
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