How the long-term care provisions are putting women, UNDER the B-U-S here, trying us, ever the more so, instead of, giving us the help we are actually in desperate need of here! Commentaries, observations, on how the system of long-term care set up by this government doesn’t help alleviate the heavy burdens of caretaking on women’s shoulders, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The scholars, after reviewing over the taxes from 2008 to 2019, they’d found, that those families who’d hired a foreign nurse, the married women in these families had a rate of work lower than the men by fifteen-percent, and, the conclusions of the burdens of taking care of the elderly parents is the reason for the lower rates of participation of women in the labor forces.
this is just, only, in the homefronts…
“Long-Term Care”, in relation to the “Participation of Labor”, there would be need of various levels of considerations. On the single aspect of the policies, the married women, because they’re taking care of the elderly in their homes, caused their rate of labor to get low, is this a debate of gender equality, developments in the career paths, the functions of the family, long-term care, labor participation, elderly welfare, or, the total development of tis country? This showed, that we are in dire need of a cross-boundary, collective view, and a system of caretaking is desperately, needed. Otherwise, any solitary, plan can only, worsen these problems by the multiples, and turn into the disasters in public policies.
The research is the surveys of both genders with the migrant caretakers at home, the roles in a marriage, a woman is either a daughter, a daughter-in-law, and there’s not just the short-term income losses of temporarily being away from work, but a task on the security of economics of the home, which will extend further into the biological, psychological, societal, cognitive, cultural means, the chain reactions. In other words, the affecting of the laboring rate, there should be the multi-layered, considerations thereof, otherwise, the relations of long-term care and labor participation will only cause the structural limitations of women, causing them oppressions.
and outside the home too…
The rate of labor participation of women from twenty-five to twenty-nine years of age in 2020, grew to its peak of 90.47-percent, and after that, as women get married, the rate dropped to a little over eighty-percent, for the age group of forty to forty-four, dropping to seventy-six percent, and dropped down lower to forty-four-percent for women between ages fifty-five to fifty-nine, and from this, one can deduct, that long-term care might be the cause, but from the society of long-term care, to splitting up the caretaking needs and responsibilities, and the structuring of the systems of care being set up, any of these being lost, can cause that ripple effect in the marriage, labor, employment, the mobility of the family, cultural belief systems, and believed to be the duties of the “feminine”. Women are usually perceived as the primary care source, the priorities in considerations in hiring a caretaker, and that, is where the problem, lies.
And so, what needed changing, is NOT the reforms of the systems, but also, the restructuring of the families’ caretaking duties as in relations to the genders, as the systems of long-term care provided by the government had found to be, “dysfunctional”, those in need not known how to apply for the subsidies, not enough resources allotted, which puts women under the severe burdens of, this, final mile.
And so, this, is how the system that was originally supposed to be helpful to these families with the long-term care needs, backfired, because yeah, the system got set up, but, the government puts the restrictions on the application rules, causing the families who really needed the long-term care provisions not qualify, which mean, that they can’t get the help they are in need of, and, because it’s a woman’s role to act as a caretaker, and this is still, a traditionalist Asian belief, that’s why, women are, tried too hard by this system.
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