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Column: To be or not to be a housewife — the modern Asian woman's dilemma

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Column: To be or not to be a housewife — the modern Asian woman's dilemma

There is this one scene from secondary school that has stayed with me until today.

One day in a Chinese language class, the teacher asked us a question. Actually the question was directed to the boys.

‘How many of you would prefer their wife to be a housewife?’

And to my surprise (and at the time, indignation) almost all of the boys in my class raised their hands. For someone like me who was brought up in a dual income household and naturally thought women are equal to and have the same rights as men, it was a pretty jarring moment.


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