首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Today men are facing new expectations and new choices about their commitments to society, family and work. No longer certain wha
Today men are facing new expectations and new choices about their commitments to society, family and work. No longer certain wha
admin
2012-05-06
81
问题
Today men are facing new expectations and new choices about their commitments to society, family and work. No longer certain what goals they should pursue, much less how they should pursue them, many men have found themselves in a no-man’s land, searching for new meanings and definitions of maturity. In interviews I conducted with 138 men from diverse social and economic background, 36 percent defined their family and work commitments in terms of primary breadwin-ning, and 30 percent chose to eschew parenthood or to avoid involvement with children they had brought into the world.
However, about 33 percent had moved toward more rather than less family involvement over the course of their lives. These men develop an outlook on parenthood that included caretaking as well as economic support. They represent a growing group of fathers, most of whom are married to work-committed women and have an egalitarian approach toward marriage and family commitments, who are changing diapers, pushing strollers, cuddling their children, and generally sharing in the pleasures and burdens of child rearing. Such men, whom I call "involved fathers”, are demonstrating a capacity, a willingness, and an enthusiasm for parenting not seen in their fathers’ and grandfathers’ generations.
An involved father, however, is not necessarily an equal father. Though men’s domestic participation has increased in recent years, his involvement has not kept in pace with women’s rapidly rising commitment to paid employment. A persistent "housework gap”has left most women with more work and less leisure time than their male counterparts. According to some estimates, when the time spent performing paid work, housework, and child care is added together, men work an average of 88 fewer hours a year than do women.
It may be tempting to focus on the fact that, even among men who support equality, their involvement as fathers remains a far distance from what most women want and most children need. Yet it is also important to acknowledge how far and how fast many men have moved toward a pattern that not long ago virtually all men considered anathema. One recent survey found that 73 percent of a group of randomly selected fathers agreed strongly that “their families are the most important facet of their lives”; 87 percent agreed that “dad is as vital as mom in raising kids". The challenge is to create the social and cultural arrangements that would enable men to uphold these beliefs more easily.
Most fathers agreed that______are the most important facet of their lives.
选项
答案
their families
解析
(最后一段提到…73 percent of...fathers agreed strongly that“their families are the mostimportant facet of their lives”。)
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/N8VK777K
本试题收录于:
C类竞赛(非英语专业本科)题库大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)分类
0
C类竞赛(非英语专业本科)
大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)
相关试题推荐
AbundanceWhatisabundance.a【T1】________—awayoflivingyourlife.a【T2】________—appearinginyourph
A、Hehasbeenataxidriver.B、Heusedtobreakthetrafficrules.C、Hestartedtodriveattheageof12.D、Hehasstoppeddriv
AudiobookAnaudiobookisarecordingthatisprimarilyspokenword.Itisoftenbasedonarecordingofcommercialprinted
Lifeinsuranceisfinancialprotectionfordependentsagainstloss________ofthebreadwinners’death.
(1)Acollegedegreehasneverbeenmorenecessary:graduatesearn,onaverage,80%morethanhigh-schoolgraduates.Yetevermo
(1)YousufKarsh,theCanadianportraitartistwhophotographedmanyofthemostinfluentialfiguresofthe20thcentury,diedi
ScientistssaytherehasbeenaseveredecreaseintheamountofwaterinLakeChadinnorthernAfricainthelastthirtyyears.
Traditionally,theAmericanfarmerhasalwaysbeenindependentandhard-working.Intheeighteenthcenturyfarmerswerequites
Ifallthelettersofthealphabetwerewrittenoutbackwards,whichwouldbethenextbutoneletterafterthethirdvowel?
随机试题
________,都护铁衣冷难着。
软件应尽量做到专机专用或安装正版软件,这是预防病毒的有效措施。()
男性,40岁。中上腹饥饿性隐痛反复发作10年,伴反酸、暖气,进食和服用抑酸剂可缓解。患者4小时前突然出现中上腹剧痛且腹痛持续存在,该患者可能发生的并发症是
患者,男,53岁。肝功能反复异常10年,1个月前因劳累及受凉后出现四肢乏力、食欲差、腹胀加重,近20天来出现全身皮肤黏膜黄染,呈进行性加重入院。查体:急性重病容,面色灰暗,皮肤、巩膜深度黄染,肝掌(+),颈部有数个蜘蛛痣,腹膨隆,腹水征(+),肝脾触摸不满
颊间隙脓肿口内切开引流时切口设计应为
六西格玛管理倡导者是实施六西格玛的组织中的关键角色,他们负有的职责有()。
马克思主义哲学之所以是科学的,就在于它坚持了()。
《中华人民共和国教育法》的推行要靠什么来做根本保障?()
ThesongsofBobDylanareverypopularamongyoungpeople,whoregardhimothermusicians.
“即使人再多也拉:不动影子”,说明
最新回复
(
0
)