Amid entrenched attitudes about women’s roles
TODAY looks at some issues which gender advocacy groups and community leaders say are among the three biggest challenges faced by women in Singapore: Sexual violence, balancing work-family dynamics and sexism at the workplace
Accounts manager Joana likens her husband to a “useless piece of large display furniture” at home.
Despite being unemployed for the last 20 years or so, he hardly helps with the household chores such as cleaning the house — leaving it all to his 54-year-old wife to handle them even when she has to work up to 10 hours in the office. “Asking him to do anything is very difficult,” said Ms Joana in Mandarin of her husband of 27 years who is a year younger than her. She declined to give her full name.
While she feels resentful at times, Ms Joana, who has two children, said she could only grin and bear it when it comes to the uneven distribution of their household responsibilities.
