How Culture Normalises Patriarchy
ROCKING OUR PRIORS
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Dr Alice Evans looks at eight ways in which culture perpetuates gender inequalities. She suggests loving mothers reproduce patriarchal sounds, while male-dominated spaces are seen as lecherous and unsafe. Women spend more time on household chores in countries where female domesticity is widely endorsed. Culturally constructed ideals of motherhood raise the volume of care work making it difficult to combine with employment.
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