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People often ask me about women's liberation。 In reply I can only reflect on the society I know best, France, and what I see here in China, where I now live。 What is it
like to grow up female in France? For one thing, I have never noticed any pre-natal preference for little boys, unlike ...全部
People often ask me about women's liberation。 In reply I can only reflect on the society I know best, France, and what I see here in China, where I now live。
What is it
like to grow up female in France? For one thing, I have never noticed any pre-natal preference for little boys, unlike in China。
I presume this is because of France's highly developed social welfare system: French people no longer look to their children for financial support when they get old。
Moreover, The French government has a long tradition of encouraging births, because
the country has had a comparatively low birthrate for over two centuries。
Families with numerous children receive financial aid from the state, and of course education is free and compulsory for all children through the age of 16。
Very few children leave school before that age, and a high percentage of lyc'ee graduates go on to university。
There certain male-female differences are still apparent: girls tend to take arts degrees, while boys predominate heavily in technical subjects。
Consequently young women often find themselves at a disadvantage in the competition for jobs, but this is the result of their free choice, not social pressure or discrimination。
I regard this liberty as beautiful, even if it does lead people to make impractical choices at times; people care genuinely for the subjects they choose to study。
Still, many women find that after twenty happy years studying things they love, they spend the next forty as frustrated " assistants"? When today's average Frenchwoman gets out of school,
she is eventually able to get a job that enables her to live simply but decently。
Real middle-class comfort, however, requires another, bigger income, so most married women are
still in some sense dependent on their husbands。
The economic realities translate into a situation in which wives with outside jobs are also the housekeepers: they do the cooking and washing and look after the kids。
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