Promoting Gender Equality in Parenting Roles

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In this generation, more men feel the desire to be more of a caregiver to their children, but often lack the resources to do so. There is an immense amount of stereotypes placed on men and women that stop them from being the parents that they may want to be. As a society, there should be more steps taken to move to a more gender equal world. In order to do this, there needs to be more resources available for both men and women, such as time off and the elimination of a glass ceiling and gendered division of labor.
According to the article, “Millennial Men Aren’t the Dads They Thought They’d Be,” a lot younger men want to be more involved with the caregiver aspect of their children’s lives. They want to provide their family with money, but …show more content…

Currently, women are still carrying on the heavy parenting and house labor rolls. Overall in the workplace, there is still a huge wage gap for women, and not enough family leave for men. Many women go home after working and take on heavy childcare and housework roles, and are not compensated for this. A lot of women are doing almost double the work as men, between their day job, and motherly duty, but men are still being paid more. There are a lot more households run by single women, than there are run by single men, and it is hard for women to keep up with the demands of money, when they simply cannot make that much …show more content…

This idea was first brought up by Thomas Paine in 1797. Now there is an argument for a U.B.I, or universal base income. This stems from Paine’s idea but is a bit more “realistic”. It would provide every family with the same income every month. This is obviously something that is not plausible, because there are cons brought up, like people being paid to be lazy and do absolutely nothing. However, this would benefit many people as well, such as single mothers who cannot keep up with demands, or stay at home mothers who could use that money for expenses or savings, or even to get away from abusive relationships. The U.B.I has a lot of pros, but is definitely something that is unavailable at the moment

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