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Doubts over 'supermums'
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
14 August 2008
More than half of adults in the UK think that family life will suffer if a woman goes to work, suggesting that support for gender equality is diminishing, new research claims.
The study, by a Cambridge University sociology professor, compared the results of social attitude surveys from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s from the UK, the US and Germany. It found that only 46 per cent of women and 42 per cent of men currently believe that family life would not suffer if women went to work, compared to 50 per cent of women and 51 per cent of men in the 1990s. The study,...
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