Many women now object to the tradition of spending New Year's Eve with the family of their spouse, rather than at the homes of their own parents, and point out that this is one of the nasty little legacies of a patriarchal society, something which goes against the modern principle of sex equality.
近年來，由於許多已婚女性反應，傳統的年夜飯都要在夫家吃，不能回到娘家去陪伴自己的父母，認為這是父權體制的遺毒，有違現代兩性平等的原則，使得新年也躍上女權議題的檯面。