A recent panel held by sociologist Brad Wilcox at the University of Virginia shed light on this question.
These are issues women love to discuss, where men aren’t given the permission or opportunity to do so, NPR personality Michel Martin pointed out early, to applause. Indeed, these issues are family issues, not women’s issues and for as long as we silo off women to have discussions about women’s happiness through marriage and motherhood, we’ll probably be less likely to achieve those very goods.
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