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What is the supermom myth?
What is the supermom myth?
- A belief that men need to manage work and family together
- A cultural idea that promotes the idea that women can do everything and have it all (correct)
- A movement that succeeded in giving women access to work and progress in the home
- A conservative activism holding back progress in the family struggles
What is the supermom myth?
What is the supermom myth?
- A belief that women can only do one thing at a time
- A myth that suggests men are solely responsible for taking care of the family
- An ideology that justifies inequality (correct)
- A belief that women should not work outside the home
What does the supermom myth suggest?
What does the supermom myth suggest?
- Men and women should share the tasks at home equally
- Women are alone responsible for taking care of the family (correct)
- Men need to change to help with family responsibilities
- Women need social support such as high-quality childcare
What does the supermom myth promote?
What does the supermom myth promote?
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What was the impact of the supermom myth on the feminist movement?
What was the impact of the supermom myth on the feminist movement?
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- The supermom myth is a powerful cultural idea that stalled the gender revolution in the 1970s and continues to exist today.
- The supermom myth suggests that women can do everything and have it all, promoting the idea that women need to work harder and smarter to manage their family lives.
- The supermom myth does not suggest that women need social support such as high-quality childcare, and it does not expect men to change.
- The supermom myth makes women alone responsible for taking care of the family.
- There is no "superdad" myth that suggests men need to manage work and family together.
- The supermom myth led to a backlash against the second wave feminist movement.
- Second wave feminists wanted dads to share in the tasks at home; they didn't want supermoms.
- The movement succeeded in giving women access to work but failed to make as much progress in the home.
- Conservative activism holding back progress, not the feminist movement making changes, caused many of these family struggles.
- The supermom myth is an example of an ideology that helps to justify inequality.
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