Monday, December 27, 2004

A quick, encouraging item: here in Omaha, the paper ran this piece from the Boston Globe last month about changing preferences " how young men and women are overturning some of the conventions about who makes the ideal bride or groom." The upshot? Women who plan to work and men who like to cook and aren't afraid of washing machines are increasingly in demand.

Now, I'm ready to grant that some of this might be a trend-happy reporter taking demographics further than they ought to go, but it feels real: the coming generation is going to be increasingly egalitarian. I have to wonder if we're getting closer to a tipping point, where traditional gender roles are consciously discarded. I can only hope so.

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