Young Men More Sexist Than Their Fathers?

[G_j]

http://www.care2.com/causes/womens-rights/blog/are-young-men-more-sexist-than-their-fathers/


Esquire Magazine has released a new survey of American men born in 1960 and 1990. http://www.esquire.com/features/facts-about-men-1010?click=pp
The survey compares attitudes on everything from politics to which decade produced the best music to what feature is most attractive in a woman. The results suggest the sexism portrayed in the popular show Mad Men may be more rampant amongst millenials than those born the year AMC's fictional ad execs began their 5th Avenue reign.

According to the survey released Thursday, more 20 year-old men -- about 20% as compared to 14% of their older counterparts -- would rather their wives stay at home and take care of the children than maintain a separate career outside of the home. Almost as striking is the assertion that only about 47% of the younger men, as compared to 55% of 50 year-olds, believe their female partner "should do whatever she wants" in making the choice to work or stay at home. And despite efforts of the women's movement to degender caretaking roles, only 1% of 20-year-old men and 3% of older respondents would choose to stay at home while their wife brings in the primary income.

What's behind the younger generation's reversion to traditional gender roles? Perhaps watching their mothers struggle with the unreasonable demand of maintaining the role of full-time caretaker and full-time employee makes them less willing to impose such stress on their partner. Or perhaps it's a result of naïveté. Young men who have yet to enter the workforce and start families are less wise to the reality that this lifestyle often requires two incomes to sustain. More worrying, these attitudes could suggest kids born in the 1990's have fallen prey to increasingly conservative portrayals of women in the media, missing shows such as Maude and Murphy Brown in favor of Desperate Housewives and a never-ending diet of reality shows that hype the worst of gender roles for men and women.

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http://www.esquire.com/features/facts-about-men-1010?click=pp

[MrScorpio]

1. Could it be that the current crop of young bucks are just too fucking immature at their current age?

Once they get to my age (I was born in 1961), there's already been a lot of growing up already done.

[AnnieBW]

2. Talk about painting with a broad brush!

Mine husband isn't sexist, and the younger guys that I work with don't seem to be. It's the ones that I know that are in their early 50's and unmarried that are the worst.

[MrScorpio]

3. Yep, there's too much to consider

The proposal is just to simple.