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Researcher granted $1.2M to study effects of Vietnam War on human aging

Vietnam War & Aging

For University of Utah sociology Prof. Kim Korinek, another key figure in the study, the project will be a way to measure the effects of war on those who may not have had direct contact with the conflict -- an area, she said, that's gone largely unstudied.

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As global thirst for tequila grows, who benefits?

Agave Plants

“Terroir is about land. It’s the taste of place, literally,” says Marie Sarita Gaytán, author of ¡Tequila! Distilling the Spirit of Mexico and associate professor of sociology and gender studies at the University of Utah. “But it’s also about people. It’s about what people do. It’s about how people live. It’s about what people bring. The knowledge. The generational know-how. It’s about families.”

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Juggling parenting, work and a pandemic not getting easier

Juggling work and Parenting

In the new Pew research, 6 in 10 women say they do more household chores than their partner and just 6% say the man does more. Those numbers don't line up when men are asked. Nearly half of men (46%) say they share tasks about equally, while 20% say they do more and just over a third credit their partner working harder on household chores.

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The surprising truth about which men do the most chores

Men and chores

The findings surprised the researchers: Religious men tackle household tasks like cooking and grocery shopping at even higher rates than nonreligious, progressive men. And both do more cooking and cleaning than the men who fall in between them on the faith scale.

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Last Updated: 12/5/23