Does anyone have a link to the study. If 4/10 women are bread winners that is a pretty good step forward in equality. I wonder though if that number is overstated because of the number of single family homes. If you only looked at 2 person households what would the number be?
This trend is likely to continue if you look at things like university enrolment where outside of engineering all professional colleges have a female majority.
Does anyone have a link to the study. If 4/10 women are bread winners that is a pretty good step forward in equality. I wonder though if that number is overstated because of the number of single family homes. If you only looked at 2 person households what would the number be?
This trend is likely to continue if you look at things like university enrolment where outside of engineering all professional colleges have a female majority.
Kudos to Megan Kelly for calling out these disgustingly stupid misogynist hacks. Mind you, she will still happily work alongside those morons at Faux News, which greatly diminishes her message in my eyes, even though she is right in this instance.
Kudos to Megan Kelly for calling out these disgustingly stupid misogynist hacks. Mind you, she will still happily work alongside those morons at Faux News, which greatly diminishes her message in my eyes, even though she is right in this instance.
I loved the editorial in the Ottawa Sun I saw a few years back saying that women as the primary breadwinners with children at home should be charged with child abuse/abandonment. The arguments were the same. Women are more nurturing than males, therefore the father staying home with the child while the woman works is detrimental to the child. Women being primary breadwinners leads to marriage break-ups. (And this may well be true... it played a role in my parents breaking up... my father didn't like the fact that my mother was making more as a white collar middle manager than he was in his blue collar job. But that's not the woman's fault.. that's male ego.)
This misogynistic ideas are out there... in Sun media, on Fox "news".... and just like with gay marriage, we will have to pull the neanderthals into the 21st century.
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I loved the editorial in the Ottawa Sun I saw a few years back saying that women as the primary breadwinners with children at home should be charged with child abuse/abandonment. The arguments were the same. Women are more nurturing than males, therefore the father staying home with the child while the woman works is detrimental to the child. Women being primary breadwinners leads to marriage break-ups. (And this may well be true... it played a role in my parents breaking up... my father didn't like the fact that my mother was making more as a white collar middle manager than he was in his blue collar job. But that's not the woman's fault.. that's male ego.)
This misogynistic ideas are out there... in Sun media, on Fox "news".... and just like with gay marriage, we will have to pull the neanderthals into the 21st century.
Garbage like this, where people are still using a binary approach to masculinity (and femininity) aren't helping either. I'm only picking on this guy because he I saw a tonne of people liking this article on Facebook, with gems like this one:
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How can anyone call himself a man if the last time he had to confront another man — whether it be over a social incident or for business purposes — was before he hit puberty?
My wife is beautiful, incredibly smart, and very athletic. She makes more than twice as much money than me, and when we had our son, I stayed home for over two years. I'm one lucky SOB!
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What was notable – and surprising and more than a bit disheartening, on its face—was some new information about what Americans seem to feel about all those hard-striving, moneymaking mothers. Researchers Wendy Wang, Kim Parker and Paul Taylor found that a majority of people appear to disapprove of them: 74% of adults say that the increasing number of mothers working for pay has made it harder to raise children, and 51% agree that children are better off if their mother is home and doesn’t hold a job.
This finding of so much negativity toward working mothers was disturbing. And it was odd, as well. For it seemed to contradict other recent studies, like the much larger General Social Survey, which in 2010 found 75 percent of Americans in agreement with the statement that “a working mother can establish just as warm and secure a relationship with her children as a mother who does not work,” and 65 percent saying that even preschool-aged children were not likely to suffer if their mothers worked outside the home. Even allowing for the variability in survey results that differently-worded questions can create, the gap in attitudes was strange. As was the fact that this week’s survey seemed to contradict another recent piece of Pew’s own research, a study that had found, in 2012, that fully 79% of Americans “reject the idea that women should return to their traditional roles.”
A large proportion of Americans, then, appear to have problems with working motherhood, but not with … working mothers. What does this mean? What message are respondents trying to convey to pollsters?
Kudos to Megan Kelly for calling out these disgustingly stupid misogynist hacks. Mind you, she will still happily work alongside those morons at Faux News, which greatly diminishes her message in my eyes, even though she is right in this instance.
I do sometimes wonder how someone who is so rational on stuff like this can still work with Fox News. I do love how she tears up those two idiots.
I do sometimes wonder how someone who is so rational on stuff like this can still work with Fox News. I do love how she tears up those two idiots.
Because like all republicans, she only cares about an issue if it directly affects her. Remember this is the same person that railed against welfare and other forms of government assistance, but vigorously defended her right to mandated maternity leave when she had a child. She's one of the most hypocritical people on that network, so I don't put much stock in what she says even when she's on the rational side of an argument
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Because like all republicans, she only cares about an issue if it directly affects her. Remember this is the same person that railed against welfare and other forms of government assistance, but vigorously defended her right to mandated maternity leave when she had a child. She's one of the most hypocritical people on that network, so I don't put much stock in what she says even when she's on the rational side of an argument
That's sort of what I meant, but looking at it now, I kind of worded it like a dumb-ass.
I mean to say that she's so rational on one side of the issues, then goes lead paint chip-eating moron on the other. The cognitive dissonance must be deafening.
Fox News blasts women who are breadwinners
