Female labor in the home has become a devalued commodity. Domestic violence thrives on the inequality of women. To gain equality, it would seem females collectively need to occupy positions outside the home that give them control over valued resources. And women must have discretionary money to invest, creating obligations and alliances individually. Japanese women continue to hold the purse strings and manage the home with great freedom and automony.
Husbands work long hours, turn over their paychecks and are given an allowance to spend.
Women lack economic and political equality. Like their Japanese sisters, Pinay, Filipino women, are now encouraged to seek higher education. They are expected to give their husbands and children priority over their jobs and careers. Working or not, they retain primary responsibility for household upkeep. In Taiwan, with its cultural relics of traditional China, being a well educated woman and not working outside the home signifies upper class distinction.