SALT LAKE CITY — New research from Pew shows 61% of 12th-grade girls want to get married someday, compared to 74% of boys.

Director of Women and Leadership Susan Madsen at Utah State University said just last year, a report came out showing that a majority of girls in high school don’t feel that boys their age respect them.

“ Seventy-six percent of girls don’t even feel that boys respect girls,” Madsen said. “That’s, I mean, you’re not going to want to marry and have in your life someone that you feel doesn’t respect women and girls. And maybe that’s becoming more important to young women these days, to be respected.”

She said although we use language saying different responsibilities like housework or childcare are equally important, girls are not seeing the same amount of respect towa

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