Soon after Jay Z welcomed his first child, Blue Ivy Carter, last year, a poem the rapper had reportedly dedicated to his new baby girl zipped around the Internet. “Before I got in the game, made a change, and got rich / I didn’t think hard about using the word B----,” it opened. “I rapped, I flipped it, I sold it, I lived it / now with my daughter in this world / I curse those that give it.” The poem turned out to be a hoax, but a spate of recent research backs the idea that close relationships with women can dramatically sway men’s attitudes and behavior, at home and at work, for better and for worse:

I have a daughter and I can say without a doubt that I am more aware of the sexism in society than I was previously. I grew up with strong women in my life and still it took having a daughter to realize that women are up against a somewhat stacked deck in life.

I recall a while back that there was a woman trying to be on the mens PGA tour. Turns out that the overwhelming majority of the men that were critical of this did not have daughters, while those that were in support of it did.

It makes a big difference.

Any of you fathers of daughters, how has it changed you? Has it? cgod, mk, kleinbl00, steve, mike and any others..