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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Yeah, that’s why those of us out here who are finding out the hard way that the white man’s world still doesn’t really accept nonwhite women with open arms - the science fields, math, computers, and law, to be precise - and can’t find any job to save our lives no matter how many college degrees we get; are screwed totally when we try to resort to what our elders did: find a husband to support us. Now these days, these post-feminazi days, no man wants to support a woman with as much higher education as he has who just can’t find a job in this economy because of her skin color. So women are just left to starve on the streets while men go abroad and search for foreign brides who have less education and aren’t going to be capable or competent to raise and educate the children they want to have with these prettier women. They may have a more subservient, less-educated wife who bears them prettier children but who won’t be able to do so much as correct their homework because they won’t know how.
What a screwed up world.
To: familyop
Would be nice if employers got the hint. Hard to find churchgoing ladies these days.
Well some of us out here DO go to Mass. When I get there all I find is that the only people there on a regular basis are all over 50 and very few newborns and new families. We have few Baptisms these days, fewer Weddings. What does that say?! Sometimes I’m the only person under 50 who’s there, for gosh sakes!!
No. Churchgoing ladies aren’t “hard to find.” You people just don’t want the one standing right in front of you!! Because I’m Native American “red” Indian I guess people just assume by looking at me that I “must” NOT go to Mass.
That is just wrong in almost every way! Women (and all minorities) are the ones getting the advantage today (just look at the percentage of women vs men in the workplace). If you can’t get a job or advance, it is probably due to your own lack of skills or perseverance. Non-White (men or women) means advancement today in almost all positions.
As to the husband thing...mercy, with the college education that is received today, it would be amazing if even a third of these women are ever married. They are being taught how to be selfish men haters - just who do you think would marry them? Geez, and you wonder why men here are looking at other countries for brides...
This has virtually nothing to do with education except that it is women’s studies that are destroying any chance at a happy marriage. Almost all women with a higher education would never even consider marrying a man with less education so who is to blame here..? They still want the money maker while they do their own thing...
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