"Work-family policies strongly affected women’s choices, but not men’s. Ms. Thébaud said that occurred because women disproportionately benefit from the policies since they are expected to be caregivers, while men are stigmatized for using them
Ms. Thébaud was the co-author of a study, published in February in the American Sociological Review, that was the first major examination of the effect workplace policies have on the relationship preferences of young men and women. It found that men and women ages 18 to 32 have egalitarian attitudes about gender roles, across education and income levels. But when faced with a lack of family-friendly policies, most fell back on traditional roles...
Surveys of young people that compare those who are childless with those who are parents also show a striking shift post-children. Millennial men have the least traditional notions about gender roles of any generation or time period, according to the most recent installment of a continuing study from the Families and Work Institute. Only 35 percent of employed millennial men without children said they thought men should be breadwinners and women should be caregivers.
Yet those who had children had different attitudes. Of millennial men who were already fathers, 53 percent said it was better for mothers and fathers to take on traditional roles...
The obstacle, she said, is that even as young men and women say they want to share responsibilities, work and child rearing have both become more demanding.
“Rather than creating more flexible notions about what a career means, there’s increasing pressure to have to put in more time at work,” she said. “Another paradox of the 21st century is that even as the caretakers of the past, women, have gone to work, the standards we apply to parents are greater than ever.”"
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/31/upshot/millennial-men-find-work-and-family-hard-to-balance.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0&referrer=&abt=0002&abg=0
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Yet those who had children had different attitudes. Of millennial men who were already fathers, 53 percent said it was better for mothers and fathers to take on traditional roles...
The obstacle, she said, is that even as young men and women say they want to share responsibilities, work and child rearing have both become more demanding.
“Rather than creating more flexible notions about what a career means, there’s increasing pressure to have to put in more time at work,” she said. “Another paradox of the 21st century is that even as the caretakers of the past, women, have gone to work, the standards we apply to parents are greater than ever.”"
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/31/upshot/millennial-men-find-work-and-family-hard-to-balance.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0&referrer=&abt=0002&abg=0
Related: American parenting ruining marriage
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