Kids today want men to be master of the house and women to stay home

Kids today want men to be master of the house and women to stay homeKids today want men to be master of the house and women to stay homeA startling new study finds thatmillennials are elend as modern as we assumecompared to older generations when it comes to women and work.According to two sociologists for the Council on Contemporary Families, mora millennials believe that men should be breadwinners and that a womans place should bein the home. Millennials were defined by the study as people born between 1982 and 2000.Looking at high school surveys over the past 40 years, the researchers found that in 1994, 58% of the high school seniors surveyed disagreed with the claim that men should work and women should stay at home for the best household arrangement.But by 2014, that number had decreased and only 42% disagreed with the idea gendered family roles. More high schoolers in 2014 thought that the husband should make all the important decisions in the family than high schoolers in 197 6.Workplace equality - but not family equalityBut in an interesting contradiction, the majority of millennials believe that even though men should be in charge at home, men and women should be equal at work.The number of high schoolers who believe that a woman should have exactly the saatkorn job opportunities as a man has increased from 76% in 1976 to nearly 90% for the generations that followed.Likewise, more young people in 2014 - 76%- believe that a working mother can establish just as warm and secure a relationship with her children as a mother who does not work than in 1976, when fewer than half of young people in 1976.Men should do more choresResearchers found the results puzzling as to why millennials were regressing back to the 19th century idea of separate spheres where women cared for the private sphere of children and the home, while men got to engage in the public sphere of being the achiever outside the home.Under the logic of separate spheres, women are born to be m others and wives and men are born to be providers.What they concluded you can believe a woman should have exactly the same job opportunities as a man and still think her place should be at home if you still believe, deep down in your heart, that there are inherent differences between men and womens capabilities.Under this attitude of egalitarian essentialism, women can choose to do anything, but they are more likely to choose work thats more consistent with their identity as women.What the researchers concluded is that we need to break the belief that capability is defined by gender. That belief dictates that women are more suited for housework and work in the domestic sphere.How to make the home feel more equal? That starts with men doing more chores Achieving equity within families requires men to take on tasks that are culturally devalued (cleaning, laundry, and to a lesser extent cooking), the researchers said.Study finds that men are threatened by womens earning powerOne other theory as to why this may be happening womens advancement in the workforce isa threat to men. They then lash out about their economic lossby contributing less to the household, refusing to do womens work.A 2012 study found that men who earned less money than their wives also did less housework than men who earned more than their wives.In a separate study on this perceived threat, researcherDan Cassino found that mens political views polarize more when it seems like they are losing ground as the dominant force in politics.The problem this kind of friction is only more likely to be apparent. Around 15% of men in the U.S. make less than their partnersdo and even bringing up spousal income with them becomes a touchy subject. During the 2016 U.S. presidential primaries, Cassino, the researcher,asked men in New Jersey about the candidates. The ones who were reminded that women may make more than men were less likely to support presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.One consistent conclusi on that we can makefrom these studies? Gender relations may be less of a straight line towards progress and more of a circle.