About child care -leave .

質問

I would like to hear your opinion !

I have read an article of Asahi newspaper on the web.
What is your thoughts of this problem ?

From here
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Because of their husbands' long working hours, many women are forced to take on child-rearing duties alone. Among men in their 30s, one in five works more than 60 hours a week. Many women quit their jobs to become mothers. More must be done to improve the working environment of such women.
What should be done to improve this situation of those women who can' work to their heart's content becaues of child -caring ?

1 )Many men aren't actively engaged in gronwing their baby !

What is your thoughts of this situation ?

I think mens should support women and should be willing to take responsibity for their chid-caring. They are reructant to have their child leave because their bosses and collegues imply you don't take chidl -leave .. .I think companies itself should change the system of child car- leave and allow them to take it more eaisly than now.. ( 育児休暇を夫が会社に伝えられるようにすべき、と言いたいのですが、表現力、語彙力が乏しくいえません。ごめんなさい）

I'm so sorry.

Probably I 'm going to ask all of you some questions . Thank you very much for understaning me.
I'm sorry if I spelled wrong.

回答No.1

cowlon · ベストアンサー

I think its an issue that would be hard to tackle because of Japan's cultural attitude towards the father's role in bringing up children.
As you said, it's difficult for fathers to ask their company for paternity leave, even if they are offered a chance to take it, because their company may think unfavourably towards the choice. Unfortunately, I think for most companies this is indeed the case. It may detriment their chances of a promotion.
I think the government needs to take more steps to support young families. In the country I live in, women can take up to 1 year on maternity leave and the company they work for are obliged to take them back when they return. I am not sure what the rules are for paternity leave, but I believe many men take them. Although even in the west, paternity leave is not as common as maternity leave. The idea that the mother stays at home to look after the children is universall in almost every country in the world, and it would be hard to change this around.
The government should do campaigns to make people aware of the paternity leave choice and to advertise that it is an acceptable and reasonable choice to take.
I think the victim in all this is not actually the mothers, but the fathers who will miss out on seeing their children grow up.
Sorry, I'm not really saying anything of great importance, but this is just my humble opinion :)

お礼

Thank you very much for answering my questions !!
It was really great to hear about your improtant opinion.
I first said to you that men couldn't take child-care leave because they looked at their bosses or collegues with real worry in his eyes , but wemen also feel stressed by them. I think so.

Many working wemen hesitate to take chid care -leave because their bosses still think that once a weman has a child, she should quit. I managed to understand how to say " 育児休暇を夫が会社に伝えられるようにすべき、と言いたい" in English. Thank you very much for your help !!
I think that to improve this situation, the government should announce to each of the companies that men should take child -care -leave. We have to change the stuation so that we won't care how the society sees us .