Author Question: There has been much written about changing gender roles and the movement toward more egalitarianism ... (Read 56 times)

rl · **on:** Jul 1, 2018

There has been much written about changing gender roles and the movement toward more egalitarianism in marriage and household work. However, we might have a skewed viewed of this idea because much of this research has been done on which of the following groups?

a. Middle-class, college educated Americans.
b. Upper-class, privileged people, who represent the 1 of the highest economic echelon in America.
c. Poor, indigent people of color, who lack a college education and are unskilled laborers.
d. Working-class couples, with high school education, who work in factories.

Question 2

Which of the following was NOT cited by these authors for why these husbands and wives kept their same gender roles in the home, even when their husbands were laid off?

a. The lack of well-paying jobs for women that would allow them to replace their husband's loss of income.
b. The reinforcement of traditional gender ideologies that continued to see women's work as secondary to the husband's.
c. The education level of these respondents, where most of them had gone to college and wanted careers that would be fulfilling outside the home, while still maintaining traditional gender roles in the home.
d. The lack of new ideologies that would support men's equal participation in household labor.