How Are Gender Politics Changing?
While in some quarters gender wars continue to rage, Father’s Day 2009 is bringing us stories of dramatic changes in the politics of marriage, relationships, and parenthood.
USA Today calls it a “New daditude”: Today’s fathers are hands-on, pressure off and says:
Hmm. I wonder how moms feel about that comparison. A little, um, competitive maybe? Check out this article–it takes on exactly the kind of changing gender roles issues we WomenGirsLadies will discuss Saturday, June 20 at 2pm at the Brooklyn Museum. It’s called “Dads, Dudes, and Doing It” and we want your voice in the conversation! All the infos’s here. Come on down!
And if you’re not in the New York area, tell us what you think anyway–leave your comments here and I’ll be sure to share them with the audience on Saturday.
GLORIA FELDT is the New York Times bestselling author of several books including No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, a sought-after speaker and frequent contributor to major news outlets, and the Co-Founder and President of Take The Lead. People has called her “the voice of experience,” and among the many honors she has been given, Vanity Fair called her one of America’s “Top 200 Women Legends, Leaders, and Trailblazers,” and Glamour chose her as a “Woman of the Year.”
As co-founder and president of Take The Lead, a leading women’s leadership nonprofit, her mission is to achieve gender parity by 2025 through innovative training programs, workshops, a groundbreaking 50 Women Can Change The World immersive, online courses, a free weekly newsletter, and events including a monthly Virtual Happy Hour program and a Take The Lead Day symposium that reached over 400,000 women globally in 2017.
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Ruth Nemzoff, author of ” Don’t Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with your Adult Children”, asked me to post this comment on her behalf:
Gloria, I sent the announcement of your talk at the Brooklyn Museum to everyone I know in Brooklyn. Men’s involvement is key to changing social policy.
Hooray for you, for Focusing on changing men’s roles. I hope lots of people attend your Brooklyn Museum talk June 20th at 2 PM.
One interesting tidbit is that older men are taking on greater responsibility for caretaking as grandparents. The old macho man who merely kuch-ee-koos his grandchild is morphing into a caretaker who snuggles and even changes diapers.