According to a survey conducted by Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry in Japan, 1 out of 3 young women just want to get married and become full-time housewife.
I was astonished at the difference between the opinions in the foreign articles. One writer was from Sweden (a) and the other was from Islamic country (b). (a)'s remark sounds like as follows; she researched the opinions of female students in one
of Japanese prestigious universities.
(a) says that the Japanese society is based on a traditional family where the wife is supposed to stay home and take care of the children and the home and the husband should be the breadwinner. The goals in life of Japanese students are very different from typical Swedish female college students. She continues to say that one Japanese student in there often fantasies about marriage and children and dreams of meeting a man rich enough for her to be a housewife. And that she wants to quit her job when she gets married. She says, in Japan, women are expected to quit working when they give birth to children and it is therefore harder for women to get promoted at work. And that the biggest issue for Japanese women wanting to work today is that there are few places to leave the children at. Limited spots for children makes it impossible for women to work full-time and have children, especially when the husbands take little or no responsibility and care of the children. The husbands’ job is to bring in the money, which often result in the father being away a lot. The student says, "He works all the time and I don’t feel very close to him.”
I think that Japanese women appear to this Swedish writer very weak-minded, dependent on others and even unhappy and Japanese men appear to her selfish and not human or compassionate.
(b) says as follows;
In various places in the world, women wage wars in quest for jobs. The Japanese women are by no means less-educated or restricted by any sort of conservative tradition. They have freedom, respect, and opportunity which are necessary for acquiring a job.
Despite the freedom, many of them prefer to sit at home all day. Should this decision be rebuked or applauded?
I like so much how he continues to show his opinion;
“A homemaker’s job has equal features as that of a career job; quality, experience, hard work and more, the only difference is that it does pay back but not in the form of money. It’s a very wrong perception that, uphill struggle pays off only in the form of money. In fact a home maker receives contentment, happiness and glory in witnessing their home running smoothly, their children growing up with ethics and morals or their loved ones happy with the atmosphere at home, which even money fails to buy for many……Women need to get educated, not for replacing men in field jobs or green notes, but for fulfilling the post of their identity and self-honor……In perspective of Japan’s falling economy and disappearing work force, Are woman workers the right solution? What will happen after the women turn grey too?”
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Now many Japanese young women are dreaming of making their own families. Japanese are, however, nor rich enough. Most families have to be supported only by double incomes. Moreover, nation needs women’s work force. It is extremely unhappy, that women are expected as work force and miss good chances to get married and after marriage they have the difficulties of late birth or even the need of fertility treatment. I wish them to have ordinary women’s opportunities which were so common and as a matter of fact decades ago.
