In interesting gender-role news, I have to give a shout-out to a really random study, which was noted in the U.K.'s Telegraph last month. The study claims that working women perpetuate the stereotype of the "useless man" in order to make themselves feel more feminine.
According to researcher Rebecca Meisenbach: “Working women who provide the majority of the household’s income to the family continue to articulate themselves as the ones who ‘see’ household messes and needs as a way to retain claims to an element of a traditional feminine identity.”
You might expect me to be outraged by the study, but it kind of made me giggle in it's absurd truth. It's basically the inverse of the idea that men who don't bring home the bacon feel robbed of their masculinity and then feel the need to criticize their female partner. Women might feel robbed of their femininity when they bring home the bacon, and therefore feel the need to criticize their male partner.
Women, who are still relatively new to the workforce in the grand scheme of things, are still struggling with where we fit in in the home and the office. We might occasionally love to feel like the perfect breadmaker and breadwinner, all at the same time. Meanwhile, men are fumbling around in the dark trying to figure out what that means for them (but that's no excuse to leave that dish in the sink!).
What do you think; do we women want it all?
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