They gotta stop believing in superstitions and making society and women paid

[theking]

..as some women are even forced to have C-section just so their baby is born in the year of the dragon  :

Despite Taiwan being a region obsessed with education, where a university degree is something of a prerequisite to social recognition, big decisions in many people’s lives are made according to superstitions rather than scientific recommendation s.

It may not be out of mere superstition that couples decline to have children born in the Year of the Tiger. A baby born then could realistically be likelier to endure hardships later in life than others. Charlene Chang  talks about the not-so-uncommon practice of selecting job aspirants according to their zodiacs. “Quite a few firms assign fortune tellers to page through job applications,” she says, and “before bosses hire, they want to know whether a newcomer is likely to become a friend or foe within the company.” Chang also points out that apart from the year of birth, the number of strokes needed to write the Chinese characters in the applicant’s name are analyzed.

But it’s not only names and the years of birth that are of relevance for all those who want their babies to start their lives auspiciously – it’s the days and hours, too. In many cases, after a pregnancy has been diagnosed, families hire fortune tellers who then choose the specific time for delivery.

This questionable practice is a subject of intensive discussion and investigation, as it results in the high incidence of Caesarian sections (CS) in Taiwan, where the CS rate is among the highest in the world. In the past decade, more than one out of three of the island’s babies were born by means of this surgical procedure, in which incisions are made through the mother’s abdomen and uterus as opposed to delivering naturally by vaginal birth.