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Rising inequality has changed family dynamics for all socioeconomic groups.

The growing diversity of family life comes with new possibilities as well as new challenges.

Our goal should be to develop work-life policies that enable people to put their gender values into practice. So let's stop arguing about the hard choices women make and help more women and men avoid such hard choices.

Social and economic policies constructed around the male breadwinner model have always disadvantaged women.