Research from University of British Columbia has found that when fathers share a more equal amount of domestic duties with their partner, their daughters tend to pursue less traditional careers.
“Because this is a correlational study, we don’t actually know what that psychological process was underlying these findings, so that’s a question for future research,” Croft says. “One possible idea is that girls might be developing ideas of what’s possible for themselves based on what their fathers seem to expect from women in general, and from the mothers, more specifically. So they’re sending these signals.”
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