American Families Author Stephanie Coontz Editorial on Slate.com
American Families author Stephanie Coontz discusses the misrepresentation of the working man as embodied by Levi Johnston on Slate.com. Read the full article.
Stephanie Coontz, author of American Families, disputes the conventional wisdom that the twenty-first century American working class male is stuck in an out-of-date worldview that gender defines household activity and contribution. On the contrary, Coontz argues, rather than trailing their white collar counterparts, working class men are outpacing them and more likely to share equally with their wives the responsibilities of housework and childcare.
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