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UK: Women who want to be housewives won?t admit it, says new report

By Alliance Alert

Iona Institute: "After decades of gender equality campaigning many women now find it hard to admit that they would rather be housewife than have a successful career of their own, according to Dr Catherine Hakim of the London School of Economics . . . An analysis of figures for Britain shows that in 1949, 20 per cent of women married husbands with significantly higher levels of education than their own, but by the late 1990s, this had almost doubled to 38 per cent. Similar patterns are seen across much of Europe, the US and Australia."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 04, 2011 (boomark / email).