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Men should step up when it comes to sharing household responsibilities
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Too often, women shoulder more of the load at home, even when couples believe it is proportionate.
ST ILLUSTRATION: MANNY FRANCISCO
- Women globally bear a disproportionate share of domestic and caregiving responsibilities, possibly impacting Singapore's declining birth rate despite supportive policies.
- Family planning disproportionately burdens women with physically demanding options and side effects, while men have easier choices like vasectomies.
- The author calls for men to embrace true shared responsibility, including when it comes to family planning.
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SINGAPORE – When I married, I fully expected to share in all the responsibilities of the household.
Laundry, cleaning the house, even with the kids – if we had them by some strange freak of nature as we were not planning to have children when we got married.
