Gender Roles and the Rules of Dating
Heterosexual women of a progressive bent often say they want equal partnerships with men. But dating is a different story entirely. The women I interviewed for a research project and book expected men to ask for, plan, and pay for dates; initiate sex ; confirm the exclusivity of a relationship; and propose marriage. After setting all of those precedents, these women then wanted a marriage in which they shared the financial responsibilities, housework, and child care relatively equally.
Almost none of my interviewees saw these dating practices as a threat to their feminist credentials or to their desire for egalitarian marriages. But they were wrong.
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The format was always the same: a prince, and of course, a princess, and me, watching. I watched the prince be the protector, the hero, the active. I watched the princess be the nurturer, the damsel, the passive.