> Those questions are all based on pretty well established observational data, but people find it very uncomfortable to acknowledge that gender roles exist and

> Those questions are all based on pretty well established observational data, but people find it very uncomfortable to acknowledge that gender roles exist and men and women continue to have very different preferences about how to live their lives, despite over a century of feminism. I think it's because one camp fundamentally believes that these preferences should be eradicated and the other believes they are natural and acceptable. You are forgetting there's no experiment controlling for culture. Naturally, laws and cultural habits don't change in lock step, the latter not even equally over all in a particular cultural zone. It is therefore to be expected that ingrained habits disappear only slowly over the generations. This should not be seen as validation of the existence of gender roles. Nor is it even about that (I know politicians try to make it about identity, it's the easiest way to rile up a base). It is about enabling all sorts of habits. Those gender roles you refer to are not and were not shared by all, and those people are thankful for change.