A Summary of an Article

Hello everyone!

Today I’d like to give you a summary of the article I’ve read in the Guardian. Here’s the link: https://bit.ly/2PFhSy2

I’ve chosen it because I’m genuinely curious to find out why men often cannot understand women’s problems and act rude regarding them.

The article «Being a father to school-aged daughter ‘makes men less sexist’» written by Nicola Davis is devoted to the problem of men being intolerant and abusive to women because of misunderstanding the problems they actually deal with. First, the author draws our attention to the fact that this often happens if men do not have daughters in their families; therefore, they cannot really face the struggles girls come across. Then she analyses the survey among families with and without daughters asking them questions about traditional attitudes about earning money (men) and looking after home (women). The author emphasizes that men having daughters disagree with traditional views on taking responsibilities in a family. Finally, she concludes by giving a quotation by a woman working in mental health and gender sphere who stated that it’s unclear what exactly makes men change their mind when having a daughter. In addition, although the thoughts expressed there were rather obscure, it is an interesting topic to discuss and further research might give some certain ideas.