2024届高考英语一轮复习外刊阅读导学案：New Data Shifting Gender Norms at Home and Work家庭和工作场所的性别规范的新改变+学案

New Data: Shifting Gender Norms at Home and Work We must acknowledge the relationship between the personal and the professional. KEY POINTS New data contributes to what we have known for decades — gender norms underpin our behaviors at work and home. We need to improve the working conditions of women and mothers. Telework may be part of the solution, but it is not an answer in itself. We see changing gender norms on a daily basis – dads wearing a baby Bjorn at the playground, men perusing the grocery aisles for dinner. This can lead us to feel the American home is gender-equal. But the truth is that traditional gender norms still affect our actions, behaviors, and decisions on a daily basis. My debut book, Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home, discussed how gender norms affect our relationships, partnerships, and the division of unpaid household labor. However, the influence of traditional gender norms doesn’t stop at our front door. Harmful attitudes towards and perceptions of gender are pervasive in our work lives as well as our home lives. Our society still places a higher priority on women in domestic work and caregiving roles, while subconsciously associating men with income generation and work outside the home. If we ever hope to achieve a truly equitable society, we need to tackle gender norms in all areas of our society and acknowledge the links between the personal and the professional. After all, the amount of time we have to spend at home is directly related to the hours we spend at work – and vice versa. That is why a new collection of data from the Council on Contemporary Families Gender Equality Symposium is so exciting. Collectively, these seven papers give us a clearer vision of how the pandemic influenced gender norms both at home and at work, where we stand today in 2023, and what we still need to do to move closer to equality. Women in the Workforce If we want to achieve true gender equality, then we need to ensure women have equal