Increasingly Heterogeneous Ages at First Birth by Education in 'Conservative' Southern-European and 'Liberal' Anglo-American Family-Policy Regimes

Rendall, Michael S.; Aracil, Encarnacion; Bagavos, Christos; Couet, Christine; DeRose, Alessandra; Giulio, Paola Di; Lappegård, Trude; Robert-Bobée, Isabelle; Rønsen, Marit; Smallwood, Steve; Verropoulou, Georgia

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“…Men and women who become parents may be a select group in terms of gender role attitudes, age and educational qualifications (e.g. Rendall et al, 2005). This concern was tested using Heckman selection correction factors.…”

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Maternal employment and gender role attitudes: dissonance among British men and women in the transition to parenthood

Schober

Scott

2012

Work, Employment and Society

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThis study examines how changes in gender role attitudes of couples after childbirth relate to women's paid work and the type of childcare used. Identifying attitude-practice dissonances matters because how they get resolved influences mothers' future employment. Previous research examined changes in women's attitudes and employment, or spouses' adaptations to each others' attitudes. This is extended by considering how women and men in couples simultaneously adapt to parenthood in terms of attitude and behavioural changes and by exploring indirect effects of economic constraints. Structural equation models and regression analysis based on the British Household Panel Survey (1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007) are applied. The results suggest that less traditional attitudes among women and men are more likely in couples where women's postnatal labour market participation and the use of formal childcare contradict their traditional prenatal attitudes. Women's prenatal earnings have an indirect effect on attitude change of both partners through incentives for maternal employment.

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Maternal employment and gender role attitudes: dissonance among British men and women in the transition to parenthood

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Scott

2012

Work, Employment and Society

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“…Previous research found that men and women who become parents may be select group in terms of gender role attitudes, age, educational qualifications, and marital status (e.g. Kaufman 2000, Rendall et al 2005). Furthermore, Baxter et al (2008) found unobserved factors to be significantly associated with increases in women's housework time and marital status and parenthood transitions.…”

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The Parenthood Effect on Gender Inequality: Explaining the Change in Paid and Domestic Work When British Couples Become Parents

Schober

2011

European Sociological Review

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This study examines the importance of couples' earnings and gender role attitudes before having children for how both partners change their contributions to housework and paid work from before pregnancy to the second year of parenthood. Previous research explored the importance of women's relative income and both partners' gender role attitudes for the extent to which the division of labour become more traditional among new parents. This research extends this literature by also considering women's absolute earnings, which may be crucial given the very high costs of formal childcare in Britain. As the transition to parenthood is a critical junction in terms of gender inequality, the findings contribute to our understanding of what is driving the long-term increase in social and economic inequalities between men and women over the life course. The statistical analysis of 310 couples is based on sixteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey (1992-2007) and applies OLS models with Heckman selection correction. The findings suggest that higher wages and more egalitarian attitudes of British women before motherhood reduce the shift towards a more traditional division of labour more than women's relative economic position in the household.

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“…The combination of later timing with less intensity for successive cohorts has led to very low levels in the total fertility rate. According to recent estimates, the first-birth probability of women born in the late 1950s was 0.82 when reaching age 33 while, at the same age, the corresponding figure for those born ten years later was only 0.72 (Rendall et al 2009). Moreover, in a time span of 10 years, the proportion of women with tertiary education increased from 20.3% (1955-59 cohorts) to 33% for those born between 1965 and 1969.…”

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Education and childlessness: the relationship between educational field, educational level, employment and childlessness among Greek women born in 1955-1959

Bagavos

2010

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In this article we expand the analysis of the relationship between educational attainment, educational field and fertility by presenting the case of Greece. The importance is emphasised of both educational field and occupation, as well as their role in the diversity of fertility observed among women. Our empirical investigation is based on census data (2001) pertaining to childbearing, educational and employment histories of an entire cohort of Greek women born in the country in 1955-1959. The analysis indicates that in some cases, the field of education serves better as an indicator of a woman's potential reproductive behaviour than the educational level attained. In general, the results show some similarities with those already obtained for other countries. In particular, women educated in teaching and health care have lower permanent childlessness at any educational level than any other major grouping. Our results confirm the findings of other studies that higher education does not systematically result in higher childlessness. Among the various factors related to an educational system, which may influence the relationship between education and childlessness, we emphasise the association of education with the labour market and mainly the distinction between employment opportunities in the public and in the private sector for highly educated women. We find that, in several cases, a woman's profession tends to modify the pattern of childlessness by educational field.

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Increasingly Heterogeneous Ages at First Birth by Education in 'Conservative' Southern-European and 'Liberal' Anglo-American Family-Policy Regimes

Cited by 4 publications

References 64 publications

Maternal employment and gender role attitudes: dissonance among British men and women in the transition to parenthood

Maternal employment and gender role attitudes: dissonance among British men and women in the transition to parenthood

The Parenthood Effect on Gender Inequality: Explaining the Change in Paid and Domestic Work When British Couples Become Parents

Education and childlessness: the relationship between educational field, educational level, employment and childlessness among Greek women born in 1955-1959

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