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Gillian B. White, The Atlantic: Sexes
Sun, 11/29/2015 - 6:47am

Paid Leave for Dads: A Feminist Issue

While women have made significant headway when it comes professional equality, a shift of a similar magnitude hasn’t happened on the home front: Traditional gender roles persist at home, despite many couples’ best efforts to divide the work more equally. As Anne Marie Slaughter told my colleague Becca Rosen, men who take on the role of primary caregiver are often stigmatized rather than lauded.

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