EDU T&L 108.01 Discussion Board

When I read the article-building a better dad by Jerry Adler, I could note that there was a radical change of fathering after the 1950’s in the U.S. I can infer this change from the history of America. As you know, many women had to work at munitions factories as workers in order to make munitions during the World War II. They assembled air fighters, armed vehicles, and so on. I think that this time was the beginning of feminism movement. As women worked at factory, they realized that they could make a living for their family instead men and they wanted to work continuously even if the war was over. Women had changed, but men had not recognized this change (Men should have recognized it). Such women’s discontent consecutively was piled up. In the article of Jerry Adler, he says that the heyday of American malehood was the 1950’s, and his father was typical American father at that time. Maybe, the 1950’s father considered the authority of paternity important.
Nowadays, the paradigm has changed. Many presidents of Fortune 500 companies resigned to spend their time with family, which means the center of family is moving father to family. It can be called “family-centered paradigm”. In the novel-7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen R. Covet, he emphasizes we should be interdependent to work with others effectively. He writes the habit of the interdependence is derived from family.
Other two essays- why I want a wife and the second shift were written by totally perspective women, so that these are more aggressive than Jerry Adler’s article. I understand this because in the view of women, men are so lazy that they must need a change. However I want to ask for time for men to learn recognize the change of time.