Seoul's Advice for Pregnant Women: 'Don't Look Disheveled,' Prepare Food for Husbands 'Unaccustomed to Cooking'

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Seoul city government under fire for releasing guidelines for pregnant women that include 'Buy a hairband so that you don’t look disheveled after having the baby,” and other draconian 'advice'

’s Pregnancy and Childbirth Information Center, as overseen by the Korean Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, published “advice” for women about to give birth. Nit is a laundry list of archaic and sexist stereotypes so outrageous, I actually thought it was parody when I first read them

. “Hang the clothes you wore before you were pregnant in a place where they are easy to see as that will motivate you to keep your weight under control and go back to the same weight you were before you gave birth. If you are tempted to over-eat or skip exercise, take a look at the clothes,” one guideline read,. “And buy a hairband so that you don’t look disheveled after having the baby,” read another.

, the guidelines immediately inspired vitriol online, and all of the recommendations deemed misogynistic have been taken down.

 

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