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Germany, like Japan, is infamous for placing very high demands on mothers[1]. It's not just career advancement in Japan, or rather that's a consequence. Japan
by Symmetry 8y ago
Germany, like Japan, is infamous for placing very high demands on mothers[1]. It's not just career advancement in Japan, or rather that's a consequence. Japanese mothers are socially expected to cooks their kids' lunches every day and sew them their backpacks for instance.
[1]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10216510/The-reluctant-hausfrau-being-a-German-mother.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10216510/The-...
- ensignavenger 8y ago"sew them their backpacks" Really? I don't recall seeing any hand sewn backpacks in Japan- only commercially manufactured ones- but I wasn't looking that closely- so I am wondering if you have a citation for this interesting bit?
- Symmetry 8y agoIt was in an article I read a while ago on Japanese fertility rates in a section talking about government instructions to mothers of children now entering school. IIRC, which I may not, women would get commercial patterns but do the sewing themselves.