Gender Differences on Cohabitation

Gender Differences on Cohabitation The main goal of the article, He Says, She Says: Gender and Cohabitation by Penelope M. Huang et al., is to develop a better understanding for why people make the decision to cohabitate, and to determine what, if any, are the gender differences for doing so, or not doing so. The authors of the article were motivated to investigate this topic due to a lack of knowledge regarding the differences in motivations between the genders for cohabitation, in conjunction with an increased occurrence of this living arrangement within American culture. The authors used two different methods for collecting their data: focus groups and in-depth, one-on-one interviews. The participants for the focus...