For two and a half decades, from the 1970s to the mid-1990s, every year, a rapidly growing number of Americans began to think that women could bust out of their traditional homemaker roles, take on more public roles and work outside the home and their kids and family wouldn’t suffer for it. …
Then something happened. Progress toward gender equity stalled. Then reversed. … The “puzzling pause,” as some academics dubbed it, came to be known as the Stalled Gender Revolution. …
But now, a group of scholars is releasing a new report through the Council on Contemporary Families, “Gender Revolution Rebound Symposium,” that they contend shows that the stall is over and that revolution is, once again, on the march. CONT.
Brigid Schulte, Washington Post