An advocacy group called Plan International recently released a study which that found that 31% of Canadian boys between the ages of 12 and 17 believe that a woman’s most important role is in the home, and that 42% of young Canadians believe that being a man entails taking more risks.
University of Toronto gender studies professor Joan Simalchik is surprised:
“That’s not what we see at universities and it’s not quite what we see in the real world.”
It’s commendable that she differentiates between the two, but you have to wonder whether gender studies professors who spend their days thinking about things like “gender patterning” should be considered the best judges of what’s going on in “the real world.”
“That’s not what we see at universities and it’s not quite what we see in the real world.”
That’s hilarious!
Guys at university act like sensitive pansies cuz they think that will get them laid, and they’re probably right…
The real world doesn’t need to poll to find out who is best suited and more qualified to be the home maker, and there is a huge difference between a house keeper and a home maker.
As the runner of our home my wife beats me hands down, and I have realized earlier on that I don’t have the mental strength to do what she does with those girls of ours.
Knacker
It isn’t your job so much as hers regarding your girls. Back her play and smile…but I bet you do that already.
…oh yea…Professor Joan appears to have a tenuous grasp on the term “real”.
They make it sound like running a home is a bad thing. Funny how leftist ideology has become so ingrained that one of the most honorable activities a woman can engage in is looked down upon.
For 13 years I performed the role of Mr Mom, my wife worked full time and I looked after house & home, all the cooking, shopping, laundry etc. It gave me a real appreciation for the role that moms fulfill. It kept me very busy and I got to have a lot of interaction and input into my youngest daughter’s life. We are empty nesters now and as a look back on it I feel blessed at being able to do what I did. I believe that the ideal situation is a stable two parent traditional family with one at home full time, preferably the mom.
vcr island mike
I happen to know several fellas who have successfully done the Mr. Mom thing…
Most guys are not cut out for it…truthfully some gals are disasters at it as well.
This Joan Simalchik, like most of academia, hasn’t a clue about the real world.
Could it be that a child thinks that their parents most important job should be looking after them. Many parents also share this idea.
@Paul Nottingham: well said. A recent conversation with my 8 yr old went something like this…
me: love you
son: love you too, dad
me: how do you know I love you?
son: because you’re suppose to
That pretty much sums up what we parents are suppose to do right? (out of the mouth of babes)
“Margaret Capelazo, senior gender adviser at CARE Canada, works mostly with men in developing countries such as Vietnam, Pakistan and Kenya. Usually men work on cash crops, while women work on food crops, but CARE encourages the men to let their women counterparts also take in agricultural training.”
Quoted from the article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadian-teens-ambivalent-about-gender-equality/article2177091/
When they apply the report to countries like Canada, they have to focus on trivialities because gender is not a problem except perhaps for males, who are now discriminated against in many situations. That girls learn to prefer pink and boys blue, or that boys stop playing with dolls, is among those trivialities that may be lamented by the professional genderists, but doesn’t cause much concern anywhere else. But if they are trying to promote agricultural training for both men and women, in places where raising food and cash crops is important to the family, I’m all for it.
I believe the “risk-taking” question was worded more along the lines of “do you believe it’s important to be tough…” a quality I happen to believe is important for both men and women if it means sticking up for yourself and having determination and drive.
I’d like to know more about how these agencies carry out their missions in places like Africa where many societies are broken by war and corruption, and where AIDS has created a generation of orphans. Perhaps they are trying that generation grow into responsible adults who will have successful families of their own.
“Experts” want to believe that all beliefs are a result of societal conditioning. They never consider that a young person might just like having their mom at home. Especially those that are eating Mac & Cheese for dinner while their mom is at work. Those “experts” will never consider that it’s actually those older people in University that have been condition to conform to the politically correct meme.
Indiana
I think you nail it….
However, I happen to like mac & cheese…just not every day…..
I think it more accurate to assume the kids are not fond of KD…..eeuuchhhh…
…because we all know that what we think between the ages of 13 and 17 is set in stone for the rest of our lives…
It’s like asking them who they’d vote for… does it really matter? Let’s go forward and talk to them when they’re 30, 40, and 50!
Does anything good come out of the National Post anymore? The Academic is your typical lefty twit.
Probably never had kids or even worked a real day in her golden life.
I believe that the sociology professor’s place is reading the job wanted ads.
but without “gender patterning” this poor woman would be jobless and would have to join the “real world”