Volume 40 - Article 2 | Pages 27–48
Weak support for a U-shaped pattern between societal gender equality and fertility when comparing societies across time
By Martin Kolk
References
Arpino, B., Esping-Andersen, G., and Pessin, L. (2015). How do changes in gender role attitudes towards female employment influence fertility? A macro-level analysis. European Sociological Review 31(3): 370–382.
Billingsley, S. (2010). The post-communist fertility puzzle. Population Research and Policy Review 29(2): 193–231.
Chesnais, J.-C. (1996). Fertility, family, and social policy in contemporary Western Europe. Population and Development Review 22(4): 729–739.
Coppedge, M., Gerring, J., Lindberg, S.I., Skaaning, S.-E., Teorell, J., Altman, D., Bernhard, M., Fish, M.S., Glynn, A., Hicken, A., Knutsen, C.H., Krusell, J., Lührmann, A., Marquardt, K.L., McMann, K., Mechkova, V., Olin, M., Paxton, P., Pemstein, D., Pernes, J., Petrarca, C.S., von Römer, J., Saxer, L., Seim, B., Sigman, R., Staton, J., Stepanova, N., and Wilson, S. (2017). Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project: V-Dem [Country-Year/Country-Date] dataset v7.1 [electronic resource]. Gothenburg: V-Dem Institute.
Esping-Andersen, G. (2016). Families in the 21st century. Stockholm: SNS Förlag.
Esping‐Andersen, G. and Billari, F.C. (2015). Re‐theorizing family demographics. Population and Development Review 41(1): 1–31.
Ferrarini, T. and Duvander, A.-Z. (2009). Swedish family policy: Controversial reform of a success story. Stockholm: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Referat Westliche Industrieländer 3).
Goldscheider, F., Bernhardt, E., and Lappegård, T. (2015). The gender revolution: A framework for understanding changing family and demographic behavior. Population and Development Review 41(2): 207–239.
Goldscheider, F., Bernhardt, E. , and Brandén, M. (2013). Domestic gender equality and childbearing in Sweden. Demographic Research 29(40): 1097–1126.
Goldscheider, F., Oláh, L.S., and Puur, A. (2010). Reconciling studies of men’s gender attitudes and fertility: Response to Westoff and Higgins. Demographic Research 22(8): 189–198.
Human Fertility Database (2018). Human fertility database [electronic resource]. Rostock and Vienna: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and Vienna Institute of Demography.
Inglehart, R. and Norris, P. (2003). Rising tide: Gender equality and cultural change around the world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kaufman, G. (2000). Do gender role attitudes matter? Family formation and dissolution among traditional and egalitarian men and women. Journal of Family Issues 21(1): 128–144.
Klasen, S. (2006). UNDP’s gender‐related measures: Some conceptual problems and possible solutions. Journal of Human Development 7(2): 243–274.
Knight, C.R. and Brinton, M.C. (2017). One egalitarianism or several? Two decades of gender-role attitude change in Europe. American Journal of Sociology 122(5): 1485–1532.
Matysiak, A. and Węziak-Białowolska, D. (2016). Country-specific conditions for work and family reconciliation: An attempt at quantification. European Journal of Population 32(4): 475–510.
McDonald, P. (2000a). Gender equity in theories of fertility transition. Population and Development Review 26(3): 427–439.
McDonald, P. (2000b). Gender equity, social institutions and the future of fertility. Journal of the Australian Population Association 17(1): 1–16.
McDonald, P. (2013). Societal foundations for explaining fertility: Gender equity. Demographic Research 28(34): 981–994.
Mills, M. (2010). Gender roles, gender (in) equality and fertility: An empirical test of five gender equity indices. Canadian Studies in Population 37(3–4): 445–474.
Myrskylä, M., Kohler, H.-P., and Billari, F.C. (2009). Advances in development reverse fertility declines. Nature 460(7256): 741–743.
Myrskylä, M., Kohler, H.-P., and Billari, F.C. (2011). High development and fertility: Fertility at older reproductive ages and gender equality explain the positive link. Rostock: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR Working Paper WP-2011-017).
Neyer, G., Lappegård, T., and Vignoli, D. (2013). Gender equality and fertility: Which equality matters? European Journal of Population 29(3): 245–272.
Puur, A., Oláh, L.S., Tazi-Preve, M.I., and Dorbritz, J. (2008). Men’s childbearing desires and views of the male role in Europe at the dawn of the 21st century. Demographic Research 19(56): 1883–1912.
Stanfors, M. and Goldscheider, F. (2017). The forest and the trees: Industrialization, demographic change, and the ongoing gender revolution in Sweden and the United States, 1870–2010. Demographic Research 36(6): 173–226.
Sundström, A., Paxton, P., Wang, Y.-T., and Lindberg, S.I. (2017). Women’s political empowerment: A new global index, 1900–2012. World Development 94: 321–335.
Therborn, G. (2004). Between sex and power: Family in the world, 1900–2000. London: Routledge.
Westoff, C.F. and Higgins, J.A. (2009). Relationships between men’s gender attitudes and fertility: Response to Puur et al.’s “Men’s childbearing desires and views of the male role in Europe at the dawn of the 21st century”. Demographic Research 21(3): 65–74.