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Article: The "New Man" is in the house: young men, social change, and housework.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Men's Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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Compared to a generation ago, married women are more involved in the paid labor force. This has led many scholars and journalists to argue that housework is slowly being transformed, with men doing more housework, women doing less, and outside help being utilized more often. Underpinned by the rhetoric of transformation in the domestic sphere, images of the "New Woman" and the "New Man" have emerged in popular culture. The New Woman is portrayed as seamlessly balancing tensions between career and motherhood, her identity far removed from the traditional, cloistered housewife role that belonged to her mother. In like manner, the New Man apparently picks his child up from ...