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Tradition: But Baby Boomers in the 1950s wanted to go out and work
Posted on 02/17/2010 10:35:54 PM PST by Stoat
Young mothers are turning their backs on high-powered careers to raise their children, a study has found.
Their mothers, or even grandmothers, lived through a time when women fought for full-time work and better pay.
But today's generation is returning to the traditional values of home and family - and looking to men to be the breadwinners.
The about-face was highlighted yesterday in research presented by leading sociologist Geoff Dench, who has analysed responses to questions asked in the annual British Social Attitudes survey.
His analysis comes against a background of growing political pressure on mothers to go out to work.
It revealed a striking change in values in the decade since New Labour swept to power.
The number of mothers with children under four who thought that family life would suffer if women worked full-time fell in the years before Tony Blair took office, dropping from 43 per cent in 1990 to 21 per cent in 1998. But by 2002 it was rising and in 2006 had soared to 37 per cent.
Similarly the number of women in the same category who agreed that most women want a home and children fell between 1994 and 2002 to 15 per cent.
But in 2006, the last time the question was asked in the survey, that number had rocketed to 32 per cent - higher even than back in 1986 when it stood at 20 per cent. By far the biggest leap came when women were asked whether they agreed that men and women should have different roles.
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Tradition: But Baby Boomers in the 1950s wanted to go out and work
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>>But today’s generation is returning to the traditional values of home and family - and looking to men to be the breadwinner<<
Just wait — this researcher will be pilloried.
It is like Joe the Bartender said — “let’s tear down the observatory to ensure we never get hit by a comet again!”
Way old fashioned... Today, men are looking for a wife that will be the breadwinner (Metro men anyway). Times have changed man, or haven’t you noticed? Women are just out of luck...they have spent their college days being inundated with leftist propaganda and indoctrinated with women’s rights that they have moved way left of most men. Their chances of finding those leftists that could co-exist with them are minimal.
The real men left are looking at overseas brides...heh.
Sexist pigs. They obviously don't have the right dosage of antidepressants.
The real men might want to check their local churches, too.
What do FReeper Ladies think? Have you seen similar trends here in the USA?
Women want to be made happy....and they are fickle and expect that when they grow up they will be entitled to be happy..and if they are with a man then their happiness or unhappiness rises and falls due to you, not them
it can be vexing..
they are just so different than us...very illogogical and emotional
but I love them dearly
don’t ask me to explain this and why am I am a rabid Sarah zealot in the same breath
lol...I can’t
My wife is from Mexico. We have been married 17 years, but do you think I might get her to agree this is a post-citizenship requirement list?
;)
Won’t happen anytime soon in the U.S. either, given that men comprise nearly 75% of layoffs in the last two years. Perhaps an all female workforce is easier for Big Brother to control after all is said and done (or undone)?
Absolutely! I really did not to demean all. You are surely right! I find church going ladies are ideal, but they are in such short supply.
Was this an Islamic poll?
LMAO ;-)
My understanding is that this is a nationwide poll, and although Islamic respondents could skew the results slightly, it seems to reinforce other data. From the article:
The analysis follows a report from a prominent liberal commentator which also revealed that far from wanting to be 'superwomen who manage everything, plus a high-profiled career', many women just want to be stay-at-home mothers with their husbands taking the role of breadwinner.
Cristina Odone, a former deputy editor of the New Statesman and editor of the Catholic Herald, said millions of women had been left frustrated and miserable by Government policies that push them back into jobs and their children into nurseries.
I could relate to this story but best not to. It is brutal in the world and much harder than 20 years ago. Proven ability is taking over bullshit. Gender and Race is taking a backseat to quality. If a minority is good and works their ass off they get the skill to maintain. If they depend on status they fail. A majority person must always depend on skill only. The system made it that way.
I grew up with a single career mom who worked her butt off to provide us girls a good life.
When I had kiddo, I opted to be a housewife.
I think at times my mother wishes she would have been home with us, but the grands make up for that.
At times I wish I had went to school and perhaps tried a career.
We made our choices and life has been good to us no matter the road we traveled.
We all have each other, family.
They can forget all that. They voted themselves into a socialist paradise. Come to think of it we can forget about it too.
Feminism is heading for nursing homes as we speak and over the next twenty years. ...last ditch, losing political effort for them over the next couple of years before senility gets the best of ‘em. There won’t be another Hillary in the White House.
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