I don't have experience in Korea or Japan, and I know gender equality has a long way to go there, but Hong Kong is umm, not doing great in many regards. HKU, for example, is led by a nearly all-male senior management team. Very few female faculty members. "Housewife" is still a widely used term here, and even today I just saw it come up in the SCMP. Would love to see it replaced with "Mrs. abc who is a full time home carer"... And I'd like to hear of other examples, but the cases I know where the woman is fully committed to a career and has children, there tends to be two helpers at home. Ah well... could be worse, could be better, and I guess you can say that about most things in life.