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Pepin's study shows millennials want gender equality at work, but not at home

Study conflicts with general belief about youth being more progressive

In a study aimed at understanding gender attitudes among high school students over a 40 year period, MPRC Student Affiliate Joanna Pepin, who is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at UMD, finds that millennial's today are more likely to favor gender equality at the workplace and in politics than at home, where nearly 40%  still consider the breadwinner-homemaker model to be a good model for a healthy, functional family. This proportion is up from nearly 30% of high school seniors in the 1990's, who held a similar opinion about gender equality at home. These findings challenge the conventional belief that youth have more progressive gender attitudes. The author portends that young people are engaging in the practice of "gender essentialism," an attitude that considers men and women "unique but equal."

See complete story in Deseret News

See June 26, 2017 story in GoodCall