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Love is a many-splendoured thing – except when seen through the lens of economists, apparently. Prominent economist Terence Chong Tai-leung, a Chinese University of Hong Kong associate professor, confirmed this in an address last week to the university’s New Asia College.
In a speech titled “How to invest in your life?”, he basically told the female students at the event that they were wasting their time on academic achievements, since women must aim to marry for money. Don’t pursue a PhD, he said, as a woman’s youth is precious. Invest in your looks instead, he urged.
It’s no wonder backlash erupted. His speech was a slap in the face of the men and women who have been campaigning for gender equality and fighting the patriarchal stereotypes that hold women back.
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