The Grand Narrative, one of my fav blogs on Korea, recently has a post discussing Korean woman's role of childcare. He mentioned that only woman appears in the signs that involve child caring, such as this:
The Grand Narrative最近有篇文章討論韓國女性的社會形象，他說，在他所能見到的每個和照顧小孩有關的標示裡，都僅有女人出現，暗指這個社會尚認為照顧孩童是女人的責任，同時，他也點出，在其他西方國家也會看到類似標示，顯然韓國不是孤例。以下是他在韓國拍攝的一個標示: |
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Which reminds me of a picture I took in Sweden several years ago:
讓我想到2007年在瑞典拍的一個路標(拍到的不太好，因為是在大馬路中間，腳被磨掉了XD):
(Ooops, this is not a very good one as both adult images are missing one leg. Can't blame, it's in the middle of the road!)
A better awareness of gender equality is one of the top reasons I admire Sweden.
男女平等是我最仰慕瑞典的原因之一(事實上，待了瑞典就難免覺得很多歐美國家相較之下在思想上仍舊相當落後，特別是美國 =.=)。
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