Dongjing's Question

I am very interested in Giddens structuration theory and I am amazed by the duality of structure—production and reproduction through processes of interpretation and interaction.
In China, guys would not hold the door for women under the impact of Communist Party’s liberating women from the old Chinese doctrines. However, very negative public discourse on women’s family issue is “women above twenty-five who are not yet married are regarded as the leftovers. Women above thirty who are not yet married are regarded not healthy beings” constructed the workplace taboo that “female in power in a certain organization would not be appreciated”. Policies on taking equal women members and offering months break for pregnant women when they are giving birth to baby for a certain organization are “out there”, but rarely “in-use”. In Kirby& Krone (2002), gender has a significant and substantive influence on family leave-taking behaviors(Sangdberg,1999); women are more likely than men to take leave(kim,1998),which could apply to Asian culture to a large extent. I found a perfect example. In the department I worked for, my director has struggled on the “baby issue” for more than three years because she was not able to. If she is not in charge of the business, someone else will be selected to take over her position soon. What is more, some “DINK” family cells(in the condition that women in the family are not planning to have a baby because of the workplace pressures) are increasing emerged in China, which could be constructed by societal and organizational values and reshape the value of the society and organization. In the workplace polices of most of the organizations in China, women are encouraged to take maternity leave and spend time with children, but men were discouraged from paternity and parental leave.
Martin(1990) deconstructed and reconstructed the Caesarean story from a feminist viewpoint. It reminded me of the chapter 5 “The Equality of Men and Women” in Jacob Burckhardt’s The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. It is very confusing to me that after the women’s movement in 1960s in the states, women are ideally supposed to be equal. My question is it possible to break taboos in mainstream organizational thinking by changing the certain policies that are not as effective as the norms (of gender inequality)?