Jennifer Granholm and Daniel Mulhern Redefine Gender Roles

-Newsweek, May 1, 2011 by Dan Mulhern
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/05/01/how-to-be-a-real-man.html

You will honor her when you treat her as an equal, neither unduly backing down nor asking her to give up her principles and experience. You won’t have clear social roles to inherit. Instead, you’ll have to talk, negotiate, sacrifice, and make it up as you go along.

-Detroit Free Press, May 5, 2011 by Rochelle Riley
http://bit.ly/k7JKIy

When the priest asked the question, Granholm laughed out loud…. “I think he was testing Dan, to see whether he was open to change,” Granholm said of the prescient question. “I was coming (to Michigan) to be with him…. I had been politically active at Harvard, and I wanted to help him behind the scenes. It was an interesting flip of the script.”

“It’s a really good time to just get past or through whatever lingering male gender roles there are,” Mulhern said. “Men still can’t seem to understand that women’s wings have been clipped in terms of social and political opportunity for a long time.”