Gender roles / edited by Noel Merino, book editor. [print]

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Are gender roles important? Gender preferences are connected to biological sex from an early age / Christina Hoff Sommers ; Gender is not inherently connected to biology / Gender Spectrum ; Marriage is meant to be the union of one man and one woman / Andreas J. Kostenberger ; Marriage equality for same-sex couples would benefit everyone / Rebecca Solnit ; There are many reasons to oppose gender neutrality in the military / Mackubin Thomas Owens ; Urine the army now: ladies can't pee outdoors, and other cringeworthy arguments for the ban on women in combat / William Saletan ; How do gender roles affect parenting and reproduction? There is nothing inherently preferable about traditional gender roles / Cathy Young ; It is wrongly assumed that all women desire motherhood / Jessica Valenti ; I hate being called a good dad / Matt Villano ; Is forced fatherhood fair? / Laurie Shrage ; Biological realities create parental responsibilities for men and women / Jonathon Van Maren ; How do gender roles affect the workplace? Gender roles in the workplace are converging / Ellen Galinsky, Kerstin Aumann, and James T. Bond ; Millennial males' "lean in" ambivalence / Peggy Drexler ; Contraception and economic decline have made the workplace more competitive / Noah Berlatsky ; The equal pay day reality check / Christina Hoff Sommers ; The gender wage gap cannot be fully explained by women's choices / Pamela Coukos ; Women face discrimination in the workplace as mothers / Ashley Nelson ; Women need special employment protection during pregnancy / Noreen Farrell, Jamie Dolkas, and Mia Munro ; How are gender roles changing? Changing gender roles in marriage / Fredric Neuman ; Feminism has harmed women by eliminating natural gender roles / Nicole M. Kooistra ; Feminists fought battles and men won the war / Brenda Zurita; Let's rethink masculinity : real men should be more than breadwinners / Joan C. Williams ; Strict binary definitions of sex and gender are problematic / Patricia J. Williams.

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