Like mothers, dads can parlay caring for their *children* into caring for the *future*—from gun violence to the climate crisis. FathersDay2023
In part, the answer can be found by looking at the decades of women-led efforts to challenge gender inequality. In the modern era, it began to take shape following the publication of Betty Friedan’s groundbreaking book, 60 years ago. Nothing like a mountain of laundry, diapers to change, and supper to cook to raise your consciousness about gender injustice.
From the start of the women’s movement, women intrinsically understood the connection between nurturing and activism. After all, it was that very liberation movement that gave us the iconic phrase “Activist men in the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s rarely, if ever, considered gender. Of course, we were fervently committed to those struggles, but often more in our heads than our hearts.
that hastened the birth of the women’s movement. For men, especially fathers and father figures, to fully join women as activist parents will require a lot of self-reflection on our part. I’m hardly exempt. So how do we get men to leverage their gender identity to advance social justice goals? Mothers and other parenting partners are healthier and happier when fathers are highly engaged with their kids—according to research conducted by Kevin Shafer, associate professor of sociology at Brigham Young University and Scott Easton, a sociologist and associate professor in the mental health department at Boston College. They say that men who care for their kids benefit too; they have improved.
To ensure that emotional openness and respect for women is widespread among future generations of men and fathers, Shafer and Easton say we must
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