"What are the opportunities for housewives in Finland?"- Sunita Kumar
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- In this video, we discuss the opportunities for homemakers in Finland. What they should do coming from their own country? #Housewives #Homemakers #finland #europe #jobs #Visa
Just to be sure I looked up a definition for
homemaker
a person who manages a home and often raises children instead of earning money from a job.
It seems that retired people and people with passive income tend to be homemakers too.
If you count them in, it means there are significant numbers of homemakers in Finland.
What opportunities there are for househusbands in Finland?
Seems like a natural question in this context.
The same as housewives. I have seen a few men in this position of being a support system to their wives, relying on part-time jobs, registered as job seekers for unemployment benefit, or continuing as university students for student allowance. Though the cases in front me are less in numbers in comparison to women as housewives. It is not uncommon in European countries. It is completely unacceptable in Asian patriarchal societies. Men have a ton of pressure to perform in terms of finance generation where I come from. It has taken a toll on men's mental health for an entire generation that no one talks about.
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The idea that man needs to be the main provider for the family and homes being more the domain of women isn't distant history in Europe or Finland either. There are groups where it's the norm today. And it has also been different in different social groups. Agriculture with the need to handle the ownership of land was clearly a big factor all over the world leading to similar social structures. Ownership and inheritance formed a lot of the social expectations.
It's only after 1960 and later, I think, equality in the roles and also acceptance of different individual choices has been more respected. Though individual people can have their own very different views.
Some are very old-fashioned, stuck to some old ways of thinking, which for them might be something new. There are always some rebellious people against anything. It can be based on some romantic ideas of the more simple old ways of the somehow better past. It can be in connection to religious beliefs or ideas of something being more "natural".
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Some Finnish history from the legislative point of view:
Years when the position of women has improved in Finland
19th century
• 1864 unmarried 25-year-old women of full age
• 1878 equal inheritance rights for women and men
20th century
• In 1901, women received the right to study at universities under the same conditions as men
• In 1906, women were given the right to vote in national elections, the first in Europe and the first in the world to be eligible to vote.
1910s
• 1917 universal suffrage for women and men in municipal elections
• 1919 married women have the right to gainful employment without their husband's consent
1920s
• 1922 a woman can enter into an employment relationship without a licence from her husband
• 1926 a woman has the right to be elected to government offices and to receive the same benefits as a man
1930s
• 1930 new marriage law enters into force: the married wife is freed from her husband's guardianship and has the right to her own property
1940s
• 1944 Act on municipal maternity and child clinics and municipal health nurses
The 1950s
• 1950 termination of pregnancy is allowed on medical grounds
The 1960s
• 1961 birth control pill is approved
• 1962 Finland ratifies the ILO equal pay agreement: equal pay for work of equal value for both the public and private sectors
The 1970s
• 1970 law on termination of pregnancy: abortion is also allowed for social reasons
• The 1970 Employment Contracts Act prohibits discrimination
• 1978 for parents the right to share parental leave between them
The 1980s
• 1980 The Finnish government's first equality program
• 1986 a woman can keep her own surname when she gets married and the child can be given the surname of either parent
• 1986 women get the right to the office of priest (the first female priests are ordained in 1988)
• 1987 Act on Equality between Women and Men (Equality Act)
The 1990s
• In 1994, marital rape is criminalized
• 1995 women's voluntary military service becomes possible
• 1995 gender-based discrimination is prohibited in the revised constitution
• 1995 quota provision for the revised Equality Act: women must be at least 40 percent in all public bodies
21st century
• 2000 general prohibition of discrimination in the reformed constitution
• 2004 assault in a private place becomes subject to official prosecution (mild assault remains a victim crime)
• 2005 comprehensive reform of the Equality Act
The 2010s
• 2011, even mild assaults against a close person are subject to official charges
• 2011 sexual contact with a defenseless person is defined as rape
• 2018 Maternity Act (entered into force in 2019)
Not all households in Finland see their income so clearly dividend to husband's or spouse's income. People do have their own different conventions and mutual agreements of how to handle their financial responsibilities.
I understand you're talking from a different perspective and context, but I'll mention anyway so that people wouldn't become confused.
Homemakers with all the same nuance as in Asian cultures might not exist any more, but that doesn't mean that there wouldn't be people taking the main or significant responsibility of homes and kids at some level. Couples can have their own arrangements of sharing responsibilities and also funds and income. But legislation doesn't allow everything. Legislation keeps parents responsible no matter what ever they agree between themselves. Also the shared responsibility of supporting the family has a legal foundation as well as the joint ownership of property which has been bought as a household.
There is legislation about marriages and divorces giving rules of how to handle these issues, if needed.
Kotirouva or kotiäiti (Stay at home wife or mother) is not uncommon, but often just for some period. Kotisä tai kotimies (Stay at home father or man ) isn't very rare either, but more rare.
If these are called homemakers or not, that depends on what specific meanings you attach to the word. It's a foreign English word in Finland and therefore doesn't have firm interpretations locally. But I would suggest that Kotiäiti or Koti-isä are very similar terms in Finnish.
Being a kotiäiti or koti-isä doesn't necessarily mean that the person wouldn't have any other occupations or activities besides staying mostly home and taking care of it. And it definitely doesn't mean that shared chores, tasks and responsibilities wouldn't exist.
You confuse people? 😅😅🤣🤣
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Sorry, my typing isn't so good especially on this small phone.
@@just42tube No issues. Your comments are always insightful. 👌
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I have been a koti-isä for many years with kids. It wasn't all I did during that period. I just wasn't employed and didn't regularly have to go to any office or elsewhere. I wasn't a homemaker in that sense that I wasn't depending on my spouse to give me money or that I didn't have any other activities to get income.
So many words of wisdom.
Thank you for your encouragement 🙏