Willing to become a family man?
(Chinanews.cn)
Updated: 2006-07-04 15:58
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.
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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 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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