I've finally reached the point I can't tell the difference between a serious academic article and something from The Onion.<p>Trying to take this seriously, I believe the authors of the study have discovered, quite shockingly it seems, that men tend to extrapolate experiences they have in one social context into another. Women are not mentioned at all in this regard. One assumes they are either immune or did not deserve equal attention from the researchers.<p>That's about all I got. Plus there was some dragging in of current politics -- it can't be that these types of things have political overtones, can it? Heaven forfend!<p>My sarcasm font is broken, so I'll just come out and say it: this is link and argument bait and accomplishes nothing whatsoever except to make people argue with each other about "hidden biases". One supposes that if these biases were truly hidden that arguing about them would be impossible, yet somehow it still occurs.<p>Definitely not worth an upvote.<p>ADD: I'll continue the rant a bit more. We have lot of a lot of good articles sliding off the new page -- hell, for what it's worth somebody submitted my latest blog article just a couple of hours ago on cool CSS tricks -- and the top stories on here now are along the lines of "I'm not your wife", "Mean things border agents did to me" and "Dear Horuku"? I love meta talk and pushing boundaries when it comes to thinking through problems in a unique way, and I even love a good thought-provoking slice-of-life or political story, but this stuff is just empty-headed garbage designed to waste time. </rant><p>I feel better now. :)
I think we subconsciously evaluate most of our relationships through the lens of previous relationships. We compare our first boss to our fathers and mothers and teachers, previous authority figures. We compare our co-workers to our friends, our roommates or classmates or the childhood friends we kept in touch with. And clearly, these men in "traditional" marriages are evaluating their women co-workers in terms of their primary female relationship, which doesn't work out well for equality. As the article points out, much of this is unconscious, even opposite of what they think they're doing.<p>That really makes me wonder about my professional and personal relationships. While I'm fortunate to have been exposed to a wide variety of people of both genders in professional and social circles, I wonder what unconscious biases are still affecting my professional relationships.
The causal relation that this article is supporting seems backwards. They aren't biased against women in the workplace because they're in a traditional marriage; they're in a traditional marriage because they're biased against women in the workplace and so would be less likely to marry a woman that wants a "modern" marriage.
Just as a thought experiment, do you think Mary Zuckerberg, the 28 year old founder of Facebook
whose casual jeans and hoodie so outrages the investment community would be an ideal role model for entrepreneurs in Hacker News?
People see management as a way of fulfilling their own life goals rather than an opportunity to genuinely help develop members of their team. The status of the managers personal life is going to have a huge impact on what particular goals they have. In my completely anecdotal experience; married men with kids have much higher expectation of deference than other groups.
"Someone I know, gender unimportant, that only reads the ads and the comics. I'm just asking if you're doing similar."<p>This is not a sexist line of thinking. I would, however, consider it somewhat rude. No, it's my paper and I bought it and you have no right to expect any share of it ... unless I'm kind enough to drop it when I'm done or take only the sections I want.