"Traditional Gender Roles Encourage Women To Avoid Marriage, Says Study"

Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2013-01-11 07:29

Article here. Excerpt:

'Unmarried couples who live together hold very conventional views of household gender roles, new research has found. In particular, researchers found that the men in unwed couples are still seen as the primary breadwinners even when they are not, while the women are seen as being responsible for domestic work.
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"A number of these working-class men wanted the respect of being the breadwinner but were not necessarily taking on that role," Miller said. "While they were content to let their girlfriends pay at least half of the rent, they admitted that they had no plans to take on half of the housework, even if their partners were very unhappy about doing more than their fair share."

Men have a very specific reason for holding onto those viewpoints, Miller and Sassler said. In particular, men are holding onto the privileges of being the breadwinner in a household because they have lost other privileges in the workplace recently.'

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There's a lot I could say about this article. But I'll just say this: If you don't like, for whatever reason, living with someone else, then *just don't*. You'll be much happier.

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2013-01-12 00:57