So I’m doing research for some magazine articles I’m writing about cutting-edge couples in a (supposed) new era of equality and came across the following:<\/p>\n
Based on a study of 120 in-depth interviews with young adults conducted between 1998-2003, NYU sociologist Kathleen Gerson<\/a> reports that 3\/4 of women said they plan to build a non-negotiable base of self-reliance and an independent identity in the world of paid work.<\/p>\n And according to other studies, there are fewer households with highly unequal divisions of family labor and more households with equal divisions than ever before — both in the US and across Europe. Turns out, if egalitarian divisions aren’t possible, what a husband wants and what a wife wants are often at odds. According to Gerson, “If a supportive, equal partnership is not possible, most women prefer individual autonomy over becoming dependent on a husband in a traditional marriage. Most men, however, if they can’t have an equal balance between work and parenting, fall back on a neo-traditional arrangement that allows them to put their own work prospects first and rely on a partner for most caregiving.” <\/p>\n So, um, what might this say about who’s really<\/i> calling shots in those couples featured by Leslie Bennetts<\/a> where the wives are staying home? Just a thought…<\/p>\n (All info drawn from the special Council on Contemporary Families<\/a> issue of The American Prospect<\/a> last month)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I’m doing research for some magazine articles I’m writing about cutting-edge couples in a (supposed) new era of equality and came across the following: Based on a study of 120 in-depth interviews with young adults conducted between 1998-2003, NYU sociologist Kathleen Gerson reports that 3\/4 of women said they plan to build a non-negotiable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21938],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-worklife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}