Researchers from Harvard, NYU, and University of Utah publish findings that demonstrate that men married to housewives discriminate against women in the workplace:
In this article, we examine a heretofore neglected pocket of resistance to the gender revolution in the workplace: married male employees who have stay-at-home wives. We develop and empirically test the theoretical argument suggesting that such organizational members, compared to male employees in modern marriages, are more likely to exhibit attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that are harmful to women in the workplace. To assess this hypothesis, we conducted four studies with a total of 718 married, male participants. We found that employed husbands in traditional marriages, compared to those in modern marriages, tend to (a) view the presence of women in the workplace unfavorably, (b) perceive that organizations with higher numbers of female employees are operating less smoothly, (c) find organizations with female leaders as relatively unattractive, and (d) deny, more frequently, qualified female employees opportunities for promotion. The consistent pattern of results found across multiple studies employing multiple methods and samples demonstrates the robustness of the findings. We discuss the theoretical and practical import of our findings and suggest directions for future research.
Who’s surprised?
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I am not surprised but for academia I would add men married to K-12 teachers and college instructors, and to secretaries, and in many cases, men married to their former students.
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I think it mainly works in opposite from the implied here direction: sexist men choose to get married to housewives because that’s what they want in their life. Also I suppose the % of housewives is higher in older generations and then sexism was worse than today.
Btw, I read that in some survey US Millennials are found to be more conservative than previous generation. Is it true?
— el, from not my computer
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I know several men who married successful brilliant women, yet right after the marriage those women adamantly refused to work. Since then they have transformed into depressed, weepy miserable creatures. When all a man sees at home is an infantilized helpless woman, he is likely to think all women are this way.
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“Btw, I read that in some survey US Millennials are found to be more conservative than previous generation. Is it true?”
– I don’t know, in terms of housewifery, when I was an undergrad about 1/3 of male students said they wanted a housewife. Nowadays (especially after the crisis) not a single one.
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Does not surprise me, but good to see it spelled out.
I shudder to think I would be at home cooking for a man who is treating women at work condescendingly. I am not sure if there is a worse scenario I can imagine for my future.
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And this means exactly what? It could easily read, “Housewives with no backbone marry men who are sexist”,Oops, I realize that takes the onus off the big bad men. 😉
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How does it take ‘the onus’ off the ‘big bad men’ referred to here? They still choose to be sexist and behave in a discriminatory manner at work, regardless of whether their wives have backbone or not. Unless you’re suggesting that they should be absolved of the responsibility for their actions because their wives may not have much spine?
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It means that housewifery is not just a personal choice that doesn’t impact anybody but the participants. It obviously damages the society at large in many ways.
Also, housewives don’t get married. One can hardly be a housewife without a husband, right? People turn into housewives after marriage.
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Actually, what Im suggesting is that the “study” is bullshit. If you want to study sexist men be my guest, but dont link it to their “wives”(marriage). The wives(marriage) have absolutely nothing to do with their sexist behaviour. Unless of course you want to blame them(wives) for it???
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“The wives(marriage) have absolutely nothing to do with their sexist behaviour. Unless of course you want to blame them(wives) for it???”
– Let’s leave aside the childish language of blame. We are not at the playground. An unhealthy dynamic between a housewife and her husband is something that cannot be contained within the house. This is what the study is about.
“The wives(marriage) have absolutely nothing to do with their sexist behaviour. ”
– Their life partner is a useless, infantilized, permanently depressed and weepy creature who cannot fulfill the most basic functions of an adult. They see that every single day of their lives in a close proximity. The chance that it will not affect their perception of all women are non-existent. I, for example, only had a house-husband for 3 years. And I despised men passionately for years after that.
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– Let’s leave aside the childish language of blame.(Clarissa)
Their life partner is a useless, infantilized, permanently depressed and weepy creature who cannot fulfill the most basic functions of an adult.(Clarissa)
The way your brain works truly mistifies me sometimes. 😉
The study is useless in that these men had this kind of behaviour before they married and will continue to have it after they are married. That they have a so called housewife is completely irrelevant to their behaviour other than they have a wife who is a housewife. The completely idiocy of the article is that they try to link these two as a reason for the sexist male behaviour. There are more than enough couples where the wife stays home and the husband is not a sexist and vice versa.
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You are wrong. The very fact of having a housewife instead of a life partner who is an equal and a fully valid human being is an obvious sign of sexism.
Why are you suddenly such a defender of housewifery?
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Actually the act of being a housewife or househusband is not sexist. Because you dont like it, doesnt make it so.
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“Actually the act of being a housewife or househusband is not sexist.”
– Thinking that an adult needs to clothed and fed by another adult just because her genitals are shaped in a certain way is the most sexist thing I can imagine. Do you understand the meaning of the word sexism? Maybe you need to look up the definition of the word.
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The act of a husband or wife choosing to stay home and parent(work) rather than work outside the home is not sexist, for many it is economically a more sound choice. Because you choose to not like those decisions does not make it sexist. You need a better dictionary because the “Clarissa” one seems to have many glaring errors in it. Your bias clouds your vision.
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“The act of a husband or wife choosing to stay home and parent(work) rather than work outside the home is not sexist, for many it is economically a more sound choice. ”
– Prostitution is also very economically sound. That doesn’t make it something different from what it is. The fact that people castrate their existence for money doesn’t make it any more noble.
“Because you choose to not like those decisions does not make it sexist.”
– The Merriam-Webster dictionary definition of sexism: “behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex.” You cannot find a better example of this as housewifery. Housewifery is a social role which is based on sex. Or will you try to argue the opposite? Maybe you should inform the creators of the dictionary about their bias. Strange, however, how everybody is biased, in your mind. The researchers from extremely respectable universities, the dictionary of the English language – gosh, it’s all one huge conspiracy!
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You keep ignoring the fact that both females and males stay home with the kids. Especially families in which one of the two parents make more money. If you call that sexist, well, gosh be darned thats a new one. As far as prostitution goes, you get paid to use your brain, the prostitutes use other parts of their bodies to make money, are you telling me that yours is the best decision for everyone? Or do we now get to hear how all sexuality that doesnt go right by Clarissa is wrong?
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“You keep ignoring the fact that both females and males stay home with the kids. ”
– Men do not see housewifery as their entitlement. They feel ashamed and emasculated as a result.
“As far as prostitution goes, you get paid to use your brain, the prostitutes use other parts of their bodies to make money, are you telling me that yours is the best decision for everyone”
– Weird projections. I respect prostitutes a lot more than housewives because housewives sell their sexuality, brains, bodies, and all parts just for food, housing and some pocket money. Prostitutes only work some hours in a day. Housewives serve 24 hours a day.
“Or do we now get to hear how all sexuality that doesnt go right by Clarissa is wrong?”
– I’m in favor of legalizing prostitution.
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The fact that people castrate their existence for money doesn’t make it any more noble.(Clarissa)
– Men do not see housewifery as their entitlement. They feel ashamed and emasculated as a result. (Clarissa)
Talk about projection. You and your all or nothing gambits. In the real world there are 50 shades of grey. 😉
Actually much more than that, lol.
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“Talk about projection. You and your all or nothing gambits.”
– Do you understand the meaning of the word “projection’? It means assigning your feelings to others. I cannot feel “emasculated” by definition because I’m not a man. Do I need to explain why only men can be emasculated or will you finally consult the dictionary?
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The fact that people castrate their existence for money doesn’t make it any more noble.(Clarissa)
Geez, by definition this is projection. Typical, cherry picker.
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“Geez, by definition this is projection. ”
– Again, projection means ascribing your feelings to others.
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You are.
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“You are.”
– Please take this style of arguing to the playground.
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I left a comment in the morning, not from my computer, so it was anon, but wrote it was me. Can you check, please?
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Not surprised in the least. What I’ve noticed about men like that is, when I’ve worked under them, that they *always* have to relate my experiences back to that of their wives (or in some cases if they are much older than me, their daughters) as if that’s the only way they will process and understand it: “Oh, I’ve got a daughter about your age, she’s going to be getting married next year, will you be finding yourself a lucky man any time soon?” Or, when I’m anxious about a particular piece of schoolwork, or grad school applications, “Oh, my wife has a problem like that, we’re awaiting to hear back from our son’s applications for this really prestigious international preschool, she’s been working her tail off on them.”
I’m not amused when this happens.
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