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Asia Struggles for a Solution to Its ‘Missing Women’ Problem
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Geeta Anand and Jaeyeon Woo of the WSJ give this heartwarming story of how South Korea achieved a remarkable transformation in attitudes towards women in society after 1990, and reversed a dangerous imbalance in the ratio of females to males. This was done by the release of extraordinary energy of woman activists after the end of dictatorship in 1990 made this possible, and the efforts of media, courts, government and society. Women won the right to be heirs in the family lineage, and perceptions of women as well as the opportunities open to women changed in this period. Today the Korean government provides $177 a month for the first 5 years for child care at home. The story of one mother and daughter and their experiences, of Ms. Lim and Ms. Ko, both teaching at the university and having daughters only, shows how South Korea has changed by 2016. Moving further South Korea's government now offers incentives to companies to make paternity leave policies generous, with municipal governments adding cooking classes and housekeeping courses for fathers.
South Korea's remarkable transformation in attitudes towards women, towards female childbirths and female children 1990-2016
11/27/2015
In a remarkable turnaround South Korea was able to transform attitudes towards female childbirths so that there are now 105 males to 100 females in 2015, about the same as in the U.S. and Europe. Geeta Anand and Jaeyeon Woo provide this heartwarming story of how women activists in South Korea, the media, government and the courts, all helped to set in place a change of perceptions in society, ensuring women are recognized as heirs for family lineage, providing women other rights, so that mothers now are just as happy when a child is female. The South Korean example offers hope for China and India to reverse the dangerous trend in society of having a huge disparity between male and female births and ratios, but only if society is mobilized to take action now as happened in South Korea. China's two child policy is a step in the right direction but many see it as not enough, or too little too late.
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