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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think one of the main reasons I didn't stop working is that I worried about this with my husband: " Many of the women I spoke with were troubled by the gender-role traditionalism that crept into their marriages once they gave up work, [b]transforming them from being their husbands’ intellectual equals into the one member of their partnership uniquely endowed with gifts for laundry or cooking and cleaning; a junior member of the household, who sometimes had to “negotiate” with her husband to get money[/b] for child care. The husbands hadn’t turned into ogres. Their intent was not to make their wives feel lesser. But when traditional gender arrangements were put into place, there was a subtle slide into inequality. “The dynamic changes,” said Hope Adler, a former manager at the professional-services firm..."[/quote] Completely agree.[/quote]
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