Feminism versus Evolution: Gender Roles
The New York Times wrote a lengthy article bemoaning gender roles in childcare and housework, essentially stating that division of labor in the house had changed little since the 1990’s despite concerted efforts to re-educate society.
Kathleen Parker of The National Review takes it for granted that men and women are simply different. In her article, she writes, “Harvard zoologist E. O. Wilson wrote in his book In Search of Nature that ‘what is’ in human nature — and what may explain our rut of domestic inequity — probably goes back to our Pleistocene hunter-gatherer forebears. None of which means we can’t change, but it might take some time. Genetic bias isn’t as malleable as gender bias and is intense enough, writes Wilson, ‘to cause a substantial division of labor even in the most free and most egalitarian of future societies.’”
Rev. David Code is an Episcopal minister and family coach. His blog at the Centre Daily Times: http://community.centredaily.com/?q=blog/1305
His published articles and a 2′ video of his seminars: http://davidarthurcode.com/bio-david/
