A Critique of an Existing Public Policy

It is not too unusual to see a man in Singapore dating or marrying a woman who earns more than he does. There is also an increasing number of men who work from home and take care of the children while their wives hold higher-paying, full-time jobs outside the home.
To many, these are signs of the changes that have come to this affluent state in the past two decades. Indeed, Singaporean women have come a long way since the 1980s. They have made great strides in professions that have traditionally been dominated by men, ranging from business to information technology, entrepreneurship, life sciences, and the media. Changes have also been made to eliminate forms of gender discrimination that existed in Singapore. These include laws against family violence and the commitment by the government to an international declaration of equality when it signed the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in 1995.
However there are still a number o...