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      Can We Finish the Revolution? Gender, Work-Family Ideals, and Institutional Constraint.

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          Why has progress toward gender equality in the workplace and at home stalled in recent decades? A growing body of scholarship suggests that persistently gendered workplace norms and policies limit men's and women's ability to create gender egalitarian relationships at home. In this article, we build on and extend prior research by examining the extent to which institutional constraints, including workplace policies, affect young, unmarried men's and women's preferences for their future work-family arrangements. We also examine how these effects vary across levels of education. Drawing on original survey-experimental data, we ask respondents how they would like to structure their future relationships while experimentally manipulating the degree of institutional constraint under which they state their preferences. Two clear patterns emerge. First, as constraints are removed and men and women can opt for an egalitarian relationship, the majority of them choose this option, regardless of gender or education level. Second, women's relationship structure preferences are more malleable to the removal of institutional constraints via supportive work-family policy interventions than are men's. These findings shed light on important questions about the role of institutions in shaping work-family preferences, underscoring the notion that seemingly gender-traditional work-family decisions are largely contingent on the constraints of current workplaces.

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                Author and article information

                Journal
                Am Sociol Rev
                American sociological review
                SAGE Publications
                0003-1224
                0003-1224
                Feb 2015
                : 80
                : 1
                Affiliations
                [1 ] University of Texas at Austin.
                [2 ] University of California, Santa Barbara.
                Article
                NIHMS676777
                10.1177/0003122414564008
                4564125
                26365994
                9fa6ba7a-6ea9-49a4-b168-580a018f3836
                History

                Work-family policy,Preference formation,Gender inequality

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