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gender equality

Fertility and reproduction

Son preference and birth spacing in Pakistan

February 27, 2023February 27, 2023 Rashid Javed and Mazhar Mughal
Asia, gender equality, Gender issues, pakistan

Rashid Javed and Mazhar Mughal investigate how son preference affects birth spacing in Pakistan. The impact they find is strong, with several negative consequences on the demographic transition of the … Read more

Families and households

Children and (unequal) sharing of housework between partners in Hungary

January 23, 2023 Zsuzsanna Veroszta
Children, Europe, gender equality, Household, Hungary, woman

In addition to their childcare responsibilities, women with young children often have to do more housework, thus making an already unequal balance even more skewed. Zsuzsanna Veroszta shows that, in … Read more

Gender issues

Does culture influence the gender division of housework and childcare?

December 5, 2022 Elisa Brini, Anna Zamberlan and Paolo Barbieri
Couples, gender equality, Gender issues, Household

Gender inequality in the division of housework persists. Elisa Brini, Anna Zamberlan and Paolo Barbieri investigate if cultural heritage is resistant to changes in socioeconomic and institutional environment by studying … Read more

Education, work, economy (socio-economic differences)

Women’s economic empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa: what do we know?

November 14, 2022November 14, 2022 Eunice Williams
Africa, gender equality, Gender issues, woman, Work

The centrality of women’s economic empowerment in achieving the sustainable development goals has attracted high level policy interest. Data limitations impede knowledge of its extent in Africa. Demographic and health … Read more

Families and households

The old and the new natalism are not at odds

September 26, 2022 Laurie F. DeRose
Children, Family, Fertility, gender equality, Household

Religion has historically been a pronatalist force, but because it fosters traditional gender role attitudes, it could impede a fertility recovery stimulated by gender equity. Instead, Laurie DeRose explains how … Read more

Gender issues

The within-gender gap: employment inequality among US mothers

January 24, 2022January 24, 2022 Ariel J. Binder
gender equality, Gender issues, woman, Work

Most accounts of women in the workforce focus on gender inequality. Ariel Binder1 provides a related, but often-ignored, discussion of inequality between more- and less-educated mothers. Policies that retrigger progress … Read more

Families and households

Spain: a pioneer in gender-equal parental leave

September 23, 2021September 23, 2021 Teresa Jurado-Guerrero and Jacobo Muñoz-Comet
Family, gender equality, Gender issues, Household, Work

Gender equality in child care can be promoted through individual entitlements to a non-transferable and well-paid leave of equal duration for women and men. While this design is still rare … Read more

Gender issues

Women’s employment 1996-2016: US vs Europe

March 14, 2021January 11, 2021 Jennifer L. Hook and Eunjeong Paek
Americas, Europe, gender equality, Gender issues, woman, Work

Among OECD countries, the United States was once a leader in women’s labor force participation, but is now a laggard. Jennifer Hook and Eunjeong Paek compare trends in American and … Read more

Gender issues

The gender-cliff: Why women tend to earn less than their male partners

March 12, 2021June 15, 2020 André Grow and Jan Van Bavel
gender equality, Gender issues, woman, Work

Women tend to earn less than their male partners, all over the world. André Grow and Jan Van Bavel show that this can easily be explained by combining the unequal … Read more

Education, work, economy (socio-economic differences)

Dual earners’ parental employment strategies in Belgium

June 10, 2021March 2, 2020 Jonas Wood and Leen Marynissen
Belgium, childbearing, Children, Europe, gender equality, Work

Even in Belgium, despite its strong work-family reconciliation policies, childbearing pushes couples towards more traditional gender roles: when one member of a couple exits the labour market or takes parental … Read more

Fertility and reproduction

Son preference and within-household bargaining position of Pakistani women

March 10, 2021November 14, 2019 Rashid Javed and Mazhar Mughal
Asia, Children, gender equality, Gender issues

Rashid Javed and Mazhar Mughal analyze the effects of the pervasive phenomenon of son preference on Pakistani women’s participation in household decision-making. They find that women with at least one … Read more

Gender issues

Gender equality and fertility: is there a connection?

March 10, 2021April 1, 2019 Martin Kolk
Europe, Fertility, gender equality, Gender issues

In the last decades, researchers have suggested that gender equality may have a positive effect on fertility in high-income countries. While this conjecture appears to be true cross-sectionally, it does … Read more

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