‘Feeling left behind’: Young Australian men reverting to traditional view of gender roles

News.com.au - 17/04
Young men are going backward in their view of gender norms and increasingly believing they should be the breadwinners while a woman’s place is in the home, a new study has found.

Young men are going backward in their view of gender norms and increasingly believing they should be the breadwinners while a woman’s place is in the home, a new study has found.

Though Australians of both genders have generally become more progressive in their opinion of gender roles over the past 25 years, analysis conducted by policy think tank e61 Institute found that, since 2018, men aged between 15-24 have veered back in the conservative direction.

The research used Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey data since 2001 to gauge the level of support for traditional gender norms, based on how greatly they agreed to a series of statements.

Among them were “On the whole, men make better political leader...
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