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Whenever French Sociologist François de Singly stopped in his wife's office in the early evening, the pattern was almost always the same: the married men and single women were working overtime, and nearly all of the single men and married women had gone home. "It was striking," says the sociologist, who has specialized in family studies and taught for twelve years at the University of Nantes. "It was married men and single women working the longer hours...
...single men, 21 % for single women and a feeble 6% for married women. De Singly's conclusion: married men do best, and married women worst, because in traditional marriage the wife lives to support her husband's career and takes her own less seriously. Says the sociologist: "The family provides a kind of support system for the husband, pushing him up the job-advancement ladder. That doesn't happen for a single man or woman, and certainly not for a married woman, who is charged with performing domestic tasks...
Some of De Singly's assertions sound odd to American sociologists. His finding that educated single women do better than their male counterparts "really puzzles me," says Harvard Sociologist Lee Rainwater. "It sounds very improbable." According to Viviana Zelizer, a Barnard sociologist, De Singly's study "does fit the general finding that marriage is good for men, not so good for women," but the depiction of the single man as a misfit is "nonsense," though she concedes that "single men will have a harder time in a society that is so marriage-oriented." Still, in France at least...
...strategy. Applying negative social pressure to gays and other minority groups of our desire is not going to be easy at first. Until we're able to whip up a consensus against them, there will be some anger and some protests You need to look at the advice of sociologist Fred Hirsch, who seems clearly to foresee the implications of your ideas, but who provides a warning...
...months ago TIME commissioned the PORI Institute, a highly respected Tel Aviv public opinion research organization, to conduct a poll in the West Bank. PORI is directed by its founder Rafael Gill, 51, a sociologist with an M.A. from New York City's New School for Social Research. Since 1966 PORI has been surveying opinion on topics of current interest; its polls are regularly published by the independent newspaper Ha'aretz...