I agree that there is a generational effect, but I think there's another source besides working mothers. Many women were motivated, I think, to make careers a priority because their non-working mothers had seemed unsatisfied and often upset. People who are less likely to have had non-working mothers (or at least non-working mothers who had never had a career) may not view the idea of staying at home as as perilous as the previous generation of women often did.
To me, the big problem is all about gender roles. Stay at home dads should be just as acceptable (and common) as stay-at-home moms. So, to me, the depressing thing was that only 4 respondents suggested that the women polled expected to have stay-at-home partners, or at least that that was a serious possibility. (And even those may not indicate expectations of stay-at-home dads, because some of those 4 may not be straight.)
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To me, the big problem is all about gender roles. Stay at home dads should be just as acceptable (and common) as stay-at-home moms. So, to me, the depressing thing was that only 4 respondents suggested that the women polled expected to have stay-at-home partners, or at least that that was a serious possibility. (And even those may not indicate expectations of stay-at-home dads, because some of those 4 may not be straight.)