Lan Pei-chia, a professor of sociology at National Taiwan University, has studied the lives of domestic workers for a long time. She points out that this kind of condemnation for neglect of duty often misses the point, because patriarchal ideology still places women in charge of childcare and housework, causing mothers to feel moral anxiety, so that they in turn attempt to increase control over the nanny (also a woman).
長期研究台灣家庭外傭生活的台大社會系副教授藍佩嘉即指出，類似這種失職的責難往往是失焦的，因為是父權意識型態仍然把照顧小孩、家務勞動等責任劃歸女性，才會引起母親的道德焦慮，並反過來企圖加強對外傭（同樣也是女性）的「管教」。