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Q Would flexible working help Hong Kong women?

As the male half of a couple considering having a baby in the near future, I've of course been thinking of how we could take care of the baby. We: not just my wife. Of course for the first half year she will be responsible for the feeding, as I am not equipped for that.

After reading several letters on this topic, I wonder more and more: do fathers have any role in taking care of babies in Hong Kong? Or is this society really so old-fashioned that it is still purely a mother's task?

Wouter van Marle, Hunghom

Q What should be done to reduce the workload of teachers?

Imagine every week you have 100 Form 5-7 compositions sitting on your desk, waiting to be marked and commented on, not to mention other written exercises such as task one of the A-levels Practical Skills for Work and Study paper, or the written task of the HKCEE listening paper, the two newspaper clippings' summaries and comments from each of these 100 students plus their weekly journals - which are the required work of every student during a weekly cycle. You have to mark 500 pieces of written work mostly strewn with all sorts of grammatical mistakes and paragraph after paragraph devoid of topic sentences or a theme.

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