<p>I’ve got a couple of thoughts relating to the original question.</p>
<p>I grew up in the Bible Belt, and I was the most liberal person in my high school. When I got to Yale, I was the most conservative person any of my roommates had ever met. There were many Yalies more conservative than me - but the first weeks were a big adjustment in terms of how I perceived myself compared to how others perceived me. </p>
<p>My first job out of college, I had two Pentacostal women as coworkers. (It’s been a while, but I’m 95% sure they were Pentacostal - uncut hair bunned up with a poof in the front, ankle-length skirts, no makeup, no jewelry.) They were great coworkers, hard working and intelligent, and we got along fine. One of them was offered a promotion, and said she was happy to do the work, but didn’t want the title or the raise, because she felt it was inappropriate for her to have a higher-paying job than her husband had, or to take a job where she’d be in a position of power over a man. And her very bright daughter was not going to go to college, because it wasn’t appropriate for a woman to be more educated than her husband was, and college would interfere with marriage. </p>
<p>It would not surprise me if most Yalies (20 years ago or today) would react very strongly and negatively to a woman making those choices for herself, to say nothing of how they’d react to a man espousing those beliefs. In our (Bible Belt, conservative) office, people talked negatively behind the coworker’s back. In college, they’d say it to your face, too.</p>