A: The traditional values, its like this, that is, for example if we look at family, it is “guy outside, girl inside”. Inside means mostly house chores, house labors, taking care of husband and children, there needs in this aspect. But men, he is going into society, they talk about his contribution, his development, but to woman that is not the problem. We in the hotline many women come and talk with us about the view of marriage. You can see that they believe, a woman shouldn’t put her entire life in the family. But in here, it reflects woman’s view about her own development in life and the society’s pressure on her. You can see, they limit her in a very small space. This space can only be family, children and husband. As for her career, what can she do? That is after women are liberated, and after China is liberated, society gave women more roles. So this cause a lot of conflict in women. Such as the role of society and the role in the family., time and her contribution at the work place and her contribution to the family, a lot of conflicts. You can see from this, that actually women, even though we keep talking about equality, but traditional values limits the understanding of people of this problem. So actually it is to the women’s disadvantage. So to give a really simple example, you can see, female executives, their promotions and stuff, there are actually policies, that policy is ratios. I think western society also have this problem. That there is ratio in the political arena. This demonstrate that actually, in this society, the traditional values still has problem with women’s capability and her role in the society.
