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Will housewives be replaced by househusbands?
(chinanews.cn)
Updated: 2006-07-05 10:13



In today's society, how many Chinese men are willing to low down their
dignity and become a house husband? Recently, a survey was done among
some office male workers aged between 28 and 32 in Beijing, Shanghai,
Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. The survey shows that in the four cities, the
percentage of men who are willing to become "professional house husbands"
are 22%, 73%, 34%, and 32%, respectively.

Yang Wenhui, 32, had previously worked for a magazine before returning
home to become a house husband. "I had a stable job but my work did not
have much room for promotion. My wife was a hundred percent workaholic.
So when we got married, we agreed that after she gave birth to a child,
she would go out for work and I would stay at home," Yang said.


For another couple, the wife said it was a wise decision for her husband
to become a full-time house husband. She would not say that her husband
was incompetent. On the contrary, she could sense her husband's love from
his doing domestic chores.

Related surveys show that women are willing to work mostly work in the
IT, insurance, or the catering sector, where salaries are relatively
high. In these families, the husband usually earns less than the wife. So
the husband quit his job and stay at home to support his wife.

Ma Li, a businesswoman, said she could understand the husband and wife in
this new family mode. "I have met a lot of people in the business circle
that live like this and they are doing pretty well. I can understand
them," she said.



















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