In dual-earner households, maternal employment ________

A) frequently reduces the time school-age children spend with their fathers
B) consistently predicts declines in children’s academic achievement
C) increases children’s, and especially girls’, gender-stereotyped beliefs
D) often leads fathers to take on greater child-rearing responsibilities


Answer: D

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