American - Author | August 31, 1944 -
Social and economic policies constructed around the male breadwinner model have always disadvantaged women.
Stephanie Coontz
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Our goal should be to develop work-life policies that enable people to put their gender values into practice. So let's stop arguing about the hard choices women make and help more women and men avoid such hard choices.
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Some people may long for an era when divorce was still hard to come by. The spread of no-fault divorce has reduced the bargaining power of whichever spouse is more interested in continuing the relationship. And the breakup of such marriages has caused pain for many families.
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Rising inequality has changed family dynamics for all socioeconomic groups.
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Turning back the inequality revolution may be difficult. But that would certainly help more families - at almost all income levels - than turning back the gender revolution.
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Marriage is no longer the only place where people make major life transitions and decisions, enter into commitments, or incur obligations.
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I am not arguing that women ought to 'settle.' I am arguing that we can now expect more of a mate than we could when we depended on men for our financial security, social status, and sense of accomplishment.
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As a historian, I've spent much of my career warning people about the dangers of nostalgia.
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In my work as a historian and in my relationships as a friend, teacher, wife, and mother, I have come to think that the most useful way to understand the past and make it work for you is to look at the trade-offs and contradictions that, however deeply buried, can be uncovered in every memory, good or bad.
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As an overly confident college freshman, the first time I received a below-average score on an exam was a needed wake-up call.
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It's always seductive to know where one stands in relation to the average.
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Averages are useful because many traits, behaviors, and outcomes are distributed in a bell-shaped curve, with most results clustered around the middle and a much smaller group of outliers at the high and low ends.
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