Noonan study shows men's careers still come first (Washington Times, Dec. 4)

A husband's career continues to come first regardless of the accomplishments of his wife, according to a research released yesterday, which analyzed lifestyle patterns of American families over a 30-year period. "Even today, when women are earning more money and are more likely to put an emphasis on their career, when it comes to marriage, gender roles are very entrenched. People still buy into the stereotypes of what it means to be a good wife. It means that caring for your children and supporting your husband's career is viewed as a wife's main priority. Working is fine, but that's not really a wife's primary role," said MARY NOONAN, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Iowa.
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Noonan study shows gender roles still entrenched (Reuters, Dec. 4)

When Regina Strauss' husband's engineering job took him to Toulouse, France, she went with him even though it meant giving up her own career as a journalist. Her story is not unusual. According to a new study, couples are more likely to move for the husband's career even if the wife has a high-flying job. The researchers found that when couples relocate, the man's career tends to get a boost, while the wife's suffers. "With so many more dual-earning couples nowadays, more people are facing the situation where they have to decide whose career is more important," MARY NOONAN at the University of Iowa said in an interview. And most decide that the husband's career is the priority, showing traditional gender roles are still entrenched, Noonan and co-researcher Kimberly Shauman at the University of California at Davis found.
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