{"id":72411,"date":"2017-11-21T23:07:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T16:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-masculine-mystique-why-men-cant-ditch-the-baggage-of-being-a-bloke\/"},"modified":"2017-11-22T00:03:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T17:03:59","slug":"the-masculine-mystique-why-men-cant-ditch-the-baggage-of-being-a-bloke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-masculine-mystique-why-men-cant-ditch-the-baggage-of-being-a-bloke\/","title":{"rendered":"The 'masculine mystique' \u2013 why men can't ditch the baggage of being a bloke"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFar from embracing the school run, most men are still trapped by rigid cultural notions of being strong, dominant and successful. Is it leading to an epidemic of unhappiness similar to the one felt by Betty Friedan\u2019s 50s housewives?Back in the 90s, it was all going to be so different. Not for our generation the lopsided approach of our parents, with their quaint postwar notions of father-breadwinners and mother-homemakers. We would be equal; interchangeable. Our young women would run companies, embassies, hospitals and schools, while our young men, no slouches themselves, would punctuate their careers with long, halcyon spells dandling babies and teaching toddlers how to make tiny volcanoes out of vinegar and baking soda.That equality would have formidable knock-on effects. The gender pay gap would narrow. Sexual harassment wouldn\u2019t disappear, but decoupling professional power from gender would do a lot to erase it from the workplace. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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