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Originally Posted by Vexx
Recognize that men should also be involved in family life as rolemodels. The Scandinavian and Germanic countries seem to have some models that work pretty well.... Nakagawa d'uh?
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I don't know about Scandinavia but this is not true for Germany.
It's certainly much easier for women to enter and stay in the workforce than in Japan. Overall, the social pressure to fit into certain gender role model is lower than even in many Western countries. But all that is true only as long as there are no children. Once there are its still pretty much a done deal that the
somebody who has to take care of them is the
mother.
The population in Germany does shrink and that it doesn't shrink faster than it does is thanks to immigration as everywhere else in the developed word. According to wikipedia Germany has a significantly higher percentage of immigrants (12.31) than France (10.18) or the UK (8.982) and slightly less than the US (12.81). Japan has 1.599 percent.
So if Japan is against immigration then the only working model (high number of births) I'm aware of is France which is an often cited example here. But this is due to the fact that the
state is much more involved in taking care of the children and not so much the father. But that might be an even bigger nightmare to conservatives in Japan. It certainly is here.