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Men today. (Opinion Pulse).
The polling archive at the American Enterprise Institute contains dozens of studies on women's attitudes--their concerns, their politics, their goals--but hardly any that focus solely on men's attitudes. Both men and women see changes from the past, and both applaud more opportunities for women at work and more involvement by men in the home. Seventeen percent of women and 30 percent of men agree that today's dads are too soft.
Question: Compared to your parents' generation,
do you think ...?
Men's response
Male and female 72%
roles have changed
very much
Somewhat 25
Not at all -3
Source: Harris Interactive
for Radcliffe Public Policy
Center and Fleet Boston
Financial, January-February
2000.
Question: Now I'd like to ask you about the
women's movement ...?
Men's response
Women's movement has 51%
had a positive impact
on me personally
Negative 15
impact
No impact at all 31
(volunteered
response)
Source: Hart-Teeter Research for NBC
News/Wall Street Journal, June 2000.
Question: Do you ...?
Agree that today's dads
are too soft, they should
be more manly
Men's Women's
response response
30% 17%
Source: TNS Intersearch for
American Demographics,
March 2002.
Question: In general, do you feel ...?
Women's response
Men are different today 76%
from the way they
were 25 years ago
Are not 23
different
Note: When asked in what ways men were different, 24 percent
cited greater involvement with family and 17 percent
said acceptance of women as partners or equals.
Source: Harris Interactive for Lear's, August-October 1988.
Question: ...
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