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Thursday, April 13, 2006

internet class

legal!!!!
parece q vc achou. agora eh soh curtir o texto e verificar se suas hipotese estavam corretas. no final dele tem um link para vc ler o texto na íntegra e ateh ouvir se assim desejar!
boa leitura!!
pyta


Desperate Feminist Wives
Why wanting equality makes women unhappy.
By Meghan O'Rourke
Posted Monday, March 6, 2006, at 7:35 PM ET


In The Feminine Mystique, the late Betty Friedan attributed the malaise of married women largely to traditionalist marriages in which wives ran the home and men did the bread-winning. Her book helped spark the sexual revolution of the 1970s and fueled the notion that egalitarian partnerships—where both partners have domestic responsibilities and pursue jobs—would make wives happier. Last week, two sociologists at the University of Virginia published an exhaustive study of marital happiness among women that challenges this assumption. Stay-at-home wives, according to the authors, are more content than their working counterparts. And happiness, they found, has less to do with division of labor than with the level of commitment and "emotional work" men contribute (or are perceived to contribute). But the most interesting data may be that the women who strongly identify as progressive—the 15 percent who agree most with feminist ideals—have a harder time being happy than their peers, according to an analysis that has been provided exclusively to Slate. Feminist ideals, not domestic duties, seem to be what make wives morose. Progressive married women—who should be enjoying some or all of the fruits that Freidan lobbied for—are less happy, it would appear, than women who live as if Friedan never existed.

http://www.slate.com/id/2137537/?GT1=7932