For Sadie Hawkins Day, a gender-bending holiday, KPCC shines a light on women getting down on bended knee for a change. Females doing the “asking” for a hand in marriage, however, is still “one of the most resistant things” in the face of ever-changing gender expectations and associations, according to history and family studies professor and author Stephanie Coontz.
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