Tuesday
Jun032014
Should You Change the Gender Roles in Your Marriage Because of a Study?
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Last week researchers at the University of British Columbia released a study that looked at parents, children and gender roles. It found that fathers who do a greater share of the domestic chores have daughters who aspire to more male dominated, higher paying careers. So if dads want their daughters to be engineers or scientists or stock brokers instead of nurses or teachers or (gasp!) stay at home moms, they should do the laundry and the dishes more often. But is that how we should interpret the study's results?
categorized in Gender Issues and tagged with careers, equally shared parenting, feminism, gender, gender roles, girls, housework