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Survey finds housewives want husbands to pay up

A majority of local mothers support a proposal to offer regular pay for housewives or homemakers, according to the results of an opinion poll released yesterday.

The telephone poll of 902 mothers residing throughout the nation found that 81.7 percent of the respondents threw their weight behind the proposal that husbands should appropriate a certain portion of their incomes to their wives.

The survey results also show that 85.4 percent of those interviewed believe that housewives or homemakers contribute as much to their families as their working husbands.

The poll, set to coincide with Mother's Day tomorrow, was conducted by a local cable TV station at the request of the National Federation of Taiwan Women's Organizations to explore local mothers' views on their role in the family, as well as their opinions about the distribution of family assets.

According to the poll, only 33.6 percent of the respondents said they understand the key points of Taiwan's current "joint assets" system for married couples, while 85.3 percent said they support the proposal advocated by many local women's rights groups to revise the present law to offer more reasonable and better protection for wives' property rights.

Meanwhile, 81.8 percent said housewives should be given a sum of money that they are free to use as they wish.

The survey also found that 67.9 percent of the respondents, regardles of whether or not they are housewives or working mothers, are the primary care-givers for their children. And 53.8 percent of them said they have had daycare problems, while 26 percent said they have been satisfied with the service quality and charges of local daycare centers.

Eighty-eight percent said they think the nation should play an important role in child-rearing and education, and 87 percent said the government should develop a community daycare.
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