was there, he wanted to become an engineer, but he did not get the field because of the women guard, the lady guard guarded, and the moment she got married she gave up their field. So one thing is sure, Losing your technical expertise plus the employment. No, these are points which have to be, the technical problems which have to be gone into.

Now, the other thing which you probably feared, I don't know it very well except for the point that was mentioned -- the ownership of the asset. I think I don't know whether it was there in the Beijing Declaration or not, but the ownership of assets is not there like the borderland. Land belongs to the husband. Now the woman is mostly working, she is working here at liberty, she doesn't work here as an owner. So all the benefits of their production are going to the men. His bank loan, he's getting the bank profit, he's getting the sale, trade, everything he's getting. But the woman is deprived of their ownership. I don't know whether that is -- it must be there. I mean, I told I'll just mentioned it.

And then the last, the training of the men, because most of the production today, in their statistics, has been done by the men. But there is no exclusive training for the women, either for seed or fertilizer or farm pesticides or needs pursuing harvesting, whatever it is. They are just doing these on an informal basis, but they are the actual producers in the field. Whereas all of our training, all of our techniques, technicalities are going to the men's sector.

So these are some issues which I told I will just mention, and whether there is a plan of action for these.

Thank you .

THE CHAIRPERSON (HON. DR. PRASOP RATANAKORN):

Professor Patricia?

DR. PATRICIA LICUANAN:

First of all, I think some elements from both questions are really related and I guess the question here had to do with the perceived effects of educating women, the perceived effects of employment of women and their possible repercussions on the quality of life in the family and the welfare of the family. Okay. And so, I guess, it has been noted with a quite a bit of anxiety that as women need the home, what is going to happen to the family and what is going to happen to children.
So, basically, I feel here one must address this issue from the point of view of shared responsibility, that a family is a responsibility of everybody, of children are the responsibility of parents not just of the mother.

So, essentially, what this means you asked me, -- the distinguished delegate from Singapore asked, should the state, therefore, have more services available in order to assist women who have to leave the home, or should husbands take more share of the responsibility at home?