As his wife Chen Ya-li says, men want their wives to be independent and to perform competitively in the workplace, but at home they want them to be genteel and lady-like. In their own nuclear families, they divide up the housework, but when returning to the extended family, they expect women to put up with doing all the housework by themselves.
陳政賢的妻子陳雅麗就說，男人希望妻子在職場能自主獨立、表現傑出，但在家中又要溫柔賢淑；在自己的小家庭中可以彼此分擔家事，回到大家庭，又期待女人要有傳統婦女一人獨攬家事的能耐。