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Millennials Aren’t Traditionalists, Says CCF President Barbara Risman

Posted on June 27, 2017 in Members In The News
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Barbara Risman, PhD
Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois
brisman@uic.edu ;

CCF President Barbara Risman weighs in on recent findings that millennials want more traditional gender roles at home in a recent article in the GoodCall. Despite these findings, Risman says that millennials are not more conservative than previous generations when it comes to roles in a family.

“There are no traditionalists, as defined as people who don’t think women have a place in the workforce; that kind of traditional is extinct,” Risman says.

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