ARTICLE:With women increasingly becoming educated, balancing the workplace and expanding the traditional gender roles society had assigned to them, men, it seems, are not getting the same revolution, or seeing the benefits of a less rigid masculinity code. While women are breaking into traditionally masculine professions, census data shows men still aren't moving into stereotypically female roles, like childcare or nursing for example. In addition, the Census Bureau found that only 1% of marriage have a stay-at-home dad for children under 15. It appears that in the workplace and the homestead men are still being held be conventional depictions of masculinity; for women, the gender revolution means more power, but for men, it can mean less--taking these new roles are seen as emasculating. Michael Kimmel the executive director of the Center of the Study for Men and Masculinity at Stony Brook perhaps said it best, "women have said, 'Wait a minute, we are competent and assertive and ambitious,'" and have claimed more, and a wider range, or roles. Yet "men have not said 'We're kind, gentle, compassionate and nurturing." The article goes into more depths and more studies that detail the double standards men face in society that limit them to this rather narrow interpretation of what's masculine. Perhaps the most jarring and compelling statement is a quote from a scholar at the Center for Contemporary Families: "If men don't feel free to go into women's jobs, women are not free."
SITE: http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-one-way-gender-revolution-20131227,0,7169949.story#axzz2ozAIlc7M
