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When gender expectations determine family caregiving roles

My aging parents need me to move home to care for them, but my career will never recover and my brother who lives closer says it's not his responsibility because he's the man.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Traditional gender roles redistribute the inevitable burdens of human vulnerability in ways that sacrifice individual autonomy to collective needs unequally.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Fairness — what every civilization concluded?”

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