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Robert Max JacksonDOWN SO LONG ..Working DraftChapter 5. Intimate Combat: The Responsibility for ChildRearingWomen everywhere raise children. Men everywhere have greater power thanwomen. These fundamental social patterns must be causally linked. But what isthe nature of those links?Both scientific theories and popular culture use women's commitment tochildren to explain and to justify gender inequality. When a couple have childrensomeone must care for them. But we should not take women's Responsibility forchild rearing for must ask why women do most child rearing. Or, even more, we must askwhy men do not. In brief, social opinion, internalized expectations, rationalcalculation, and the imbalance of spouses' resources used in conflicts all thrustthat Responsibility on women. Because women and men are socialized to acceptthe prevalent definition of female and male roles, they anticipate women'sresponsibility for children.
Robert Max Jackson DOWN SO LONG . . . Working Draft Chapter 5. Intimate Combat: The Responsibility for Child Rearing Women everywhere raise children. Men everywhere have greater power than
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