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This 9 page paper discusses the way in which cultures tend to define gender roles so that men and women are “supposed” to perform certain duties; specifically, women are supposed to be caregivers, earning less and remaining in the home while men take more challenging positions outside the domestic circle. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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men too find that they cannot act with the freedom they might prefer. This paper considers how culture and gender impact familial duties, and the expectations society still places on
men and women. Discussion We begin with a humorous piece from Maureen Dowd in The New York Times. Dowd is a well-known columnist of intelligence and wit. In her article,
she wonders if Hillary Clinton would have had a better shot at the presidency if shed portrayed herself as a flight attendant rather than an attorney and U.S. senator (Dowd).
Dowd wrote in 2007, just about the time Secretary Clinton was starting to seriously consider a run for the Oval Office, so her comments are not specific to the last
presidential campaign. Instead, she notes that in 2006, Ray Fisman, an economist at Columbia University conducted a study with help from two psychologists and another economist; the subject was dating
(Dowd). Fisman, whose wife is a doctor and who proposed to him, apparently has no trouble with women being as smart as he is, or making as much or more
money. He is apparently one of the very few men who feel that way (Dowd). The results of his study "surprised him and made him a little sad because he
found that even in the 21st century, many men are still straitjacketed in stereotypes" (Dowd). He said that hed hoped men had evolved past where they are now and discusses
an episode of Sex and the City, in which Miranda goes speed-dating (Dowd). On the show, when she told them she was an attorney, they quickly lost interest, but when
she said she was a flight attendant they perked up (Dowd). Said Fisman: it "plays into their deepest fantasies" (Dowd). He also found that men were much more concerned about
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