Is late marriage and late childbearing a woman's problem?
Let's talk about this phenomenon of late marriage and late childbearing, which has been labelled as a "women's problem", and use a little humor and irony to deconstruct the absurdity behind this social label.
Putting late marriage and late childbearing on a woman's head is as ridiculous as blaming shampoo for hair loss. In this social arena, in the face of high housing prices and the cost of living, young people have to transform into "modern coolies" and desperately earn money, so much so that even the time to fall in love has become a luxury. In this case, how can you easily get married and have children? Therefore, when some people regard late marriage and late childbearing as the "patent" of women, I can't help but ask: Isn't this the collective "masterpiece" of our entire society?
For women, entering the workforce is no longer a multiple-choice question, but a mandatory one. However, when they work hard and try to prove themselves in the workplace, they have to face one "fertility cliff" after another. On one side is the pinnacle of career waiting to climb, and on the other side is the biological clock of fertility ticking. Under this double pressure, women choose to marry later and have children later, which is really helpless. Ironically, when they make such a choice, they are often criticized and blamed by society.
And men always seem to be able to hide from the problem of late marriage and late childbearing. Society's pressure on men to have children is far less severe than that on women, which inevitably makes people feel that gender equality is still an empty word in some aspects. If we really want to solve the problem of late marriage and late childbearing, then it is a more reasonable solution to promote real gender equality, so that men and women can share family and social responsibilities.
The view that late marriage and late childbearing are due to the fact that modern women are "too picky". It's like saying, "You see, apples don't taste good now, all because the customers have too bad tastes." This absurd logic not only ignores the changes in the socio-economic environment, but also ignores the legitimacy of people's demand for higher quality of marriage.
What I want to say is that late marriage and late childbearing are not a women's problem, it is a social problem. We need to work together to find solutions by improving the quality of life, improving the working environment, and promoting gender equality. And simply blaming it on women is undoubtedly an evasion of the problem and an injustice to women.
On this issue, we need more understanding and support, rather than unwarranted accusations and prejudices. Only in this way can we truly achieve a healthy and harmonious social environment, where everyone can have the right to choose at the right time.