Special contributor to glacier thought bank | White crystal
A few days ago, the 2021 Global Wealth Management Forum was held in Beijing. There is no white ding, and a group of experts "point out the country" and talk about how to manage global wealth management.
Although the experts must call the system, ecology, and wealth a new highland, it is a pity that I do not have a small goal to inherit. Look at the bank card balance, bow your head and move the bricks well at the workstation is king.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="99" >01 Men don't do housework to hinder the birth of children? </h1>
However, the speech of one expert is quite grounded and well received by the wife group.
Cai Fang, former vice president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and member of the Central Bank's Monetary Policy Committee, said in his speech that Chinese women have too much time for housework, 2.6 times that of men.
▲ On October 24, Cai Fang pointed out at the 2021 Global Wealth Management Forum (Photo/Weibo)
When women also have to take care of employment, excessive burden will reduce the willingness to have children, which is not conducive to the sustainable development of the population.
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Judging from Cai Fang's speech, it seems that the mountain that hinders fertility has added another one - Chinese men do not do housework.
▲Creative diagram (figure /figure worm creative)
Subconsciously, there are many Chinese men who equate housework with women, and there are not many men who dare to openly complain, when Li Guoqing, the founder of Dangwang, counted as the number one.
In 2019, at that time, Li Guoqing was not hanging up his pants waist when the official seal was not, and qingzi who sold Maotai in the live broadcast room was still brewing, and the Qingyu Nian War was still brewing, Li Guoqing once threw a cup in the interview, and the fire was all fired at Yu Yu's "incomplete wife", and the key evidence was that "even the socks were not washed for him".
However, Yu Yufa's circle of friends is more exciting. Regardless of whether the sexual privacy involved in the revelations is true or false, from the response of who is doing the housework alone, I think what Yu Yu said is true.
▲ Yu Yu's reply below Li Guoqing's circle of friends in 2019 (photo/Weibo)
As we all know, Dangdang is the representative of the Internet company's mom-and-pop shop, and the role of his wife Yu Yu is immeasurable. But even such a combination, from the hospitalization of the elderly to the education of children, and even the trivial matters of moving and packing boxes and traveling, must be handled by women alone.
As the old saying goes, starvation is small, and loss of temperance is big. This is moved to today, let some Chinese men who do not do housework be completely cold, it would not be a big deal, but once it affects the fertility rate, it must be managed.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="82" >02 Really, men's housework affects the birth of babies less</h1>
In fact, in view of the relationship between men's housework and fertility rate, a lot of research has been done abroad. The Nikkei Shimbun study found that in countries with higher fertility rates, such as Belgium, France and Norway, men contribute more to household chores.
Men in Japan and South Korea are the opposite, with Japanese women having an average of only 1.34 children in their lifetime, and they spend 4.76 times more time for their families than men. South Korea's fertility rate is only 0.84.
According to a survey by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, only half of the families in which the husband does not actively participate in childcare and housework have no less than two children; if the husband spends up to 2 hours a day to help his wife with childcare and housework, this proportion rises to 72.5%.
From the survey data alone, a small step for men to do housework may be a big step forward in fertility.
If men wash and cook all-inclusive, and the average Lanxiang chef technical school level can save the fertility rate from falling off a cliff, then don't wait, hurry up and promote it. First find a few provinces where machismo is rampant to do pilots, and once it is found that men refuse to do housework, they will be detained or sentenced.
Of course, as a middle-aged woman who has been in charge of household chores for a long time, the above content is purely YY. In fact, recognizing the value of housework and reducing the unbalanced burden of childcare borne by women may increase the willingness to have children to a certain extent, but it is not the antidote to the root cause.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="84" >03 Do more housework</h1>
In centuries of feudal slavery, women were completely dependent on the family, and there was almost no possibility of independent survival. When the advent of the Jenny spinning machine, the bell of the Industrial Revolution, the replacement of labor by machines, the superiority of men's absolute power were curtailed, and women gradually entered the workplace.
Women with independent economic income and on the big stage of society are no longer satisfied with showing themselves as mothers and wives, and they have their own names and lives.
However, even as women enter the public sphere and have more say, discipline from traditional gender role frameworks remains. The prevailing value of society is still that you are born a woman and you have to take care of your family. As a mother, you have to give everything you can to take care of your children.
As a result, more young women after the 90s and generation Z choose to marry late and have children later, or even not marry and be infertile to escape the punishment of motherhood. Therefore, the problem of housework is only a symptom. Besides, hourly workers and live-in aunts are now very common, and the emergence of takeaways, sweeping robots, and dishwashers has also made it difficult for the world to do housework.
I really want to alleviate women's parenting anxiety, first of all, we must "see" women, so that they are truly respected and recognized, and have equal rights to life choices with men.
The journal "PLOS ONE" published a paper: scientists looked for nearly 3,000 men and women of similar age, physique and living habits, and after 9 years of watching, they found that -
Men do heavy household chores such as vacuuming, wiping floors, mopping floors, scrubbing windows, washing cars, moving furniture, and moving gas cans, and the mortality rate has been reduced by more than half.
Don't say anything, fellow men! For the sake of the country, for the sake of health, roll up your sleeves and work hard!