In an effort to move forward from Leclerc's (now nostalgic and) rather black and white view of the feminist question, I recalled reading this article from the New York Times a few weeks ago. Essentially, it reports on the effects of the shift to having women working outside the home on a marriage (they are, for the most part, fairly positive, but only when the husband takes on some of the previously "feminine" responsibilities [and the wife lets them go]).
"And the blurring of traditional gender roles appears to have a positive effect. Lynn Prince Cooke, a sociology professor at the University of Kent in England, has found that American couples who share employment and housework responsibilities are less likely to divorce compared with couples where the man is the sole breadwinner."
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