i hate how this article confuses 'wanting a stay at home wife' with gender equality. so according to this article, having this preference must mean they are not in favor of gender equality.
Actually, while the title is a little off-the-mark, the article clarifies that they determine the desire for "gender equality" from surveys which ask about it directly. The surveys they use do not ask "Would you prefer a stay-at-home-wife?". Instead, they ask if the respondents agree that "It is much better for everyone involved if the man is the achiever outside the home and the woman takes care of the home and family.". Clearly the latter sentence is a value judgement that does not support gender equality (because if they had supported gender equality, they would disagree since having a stay-at-home dad and working mom should be equivalent to the situation described).
I can kind of see it if the 'one person stays home to care for a child' part is fixed, and then the choice becomes one of 'man stays home' vs 'woman stays home'. If millennial men choose the second over the first consistently, you could easily draw that conclusion.
Similarly, it's stated early on that millennials were expected to see greater parity between the sexes in most roles, especially professional ones. If that's not happening, and if people are swinging back towards preferring men in the position of 'earner' (and therefore in a position of power), it's not hard to make that connection.
It's definitely true that they should have been more explicit about it, rather than seeming to conflate the two without identifying one as a proxy for the other, maybe.
Although it is a bit of a stretch if there was no gender bias involved the husband would choose to stay at home (if the actual goal is one employed person, one home maker).
