This paper investigates whether unemployment and insecure employment periods merely delay fertility or also impact on … completed fertility in France. It analyses both the timing of first childbearing and the fertility reached at age 40. Different … timing of first childbearing, while periods of insecure employment delay fertility for women. Completed fertility is impacted …

test of gender equity theory by examining whether the unequal division of household labour leads to lower fertility … market participation and the lowest-low fertility. The Netherlands has moderate to low gender inequity, high part-time female …Fertility levels have fallen drastically in most industrialized countries. Diverse theoretical and empirical frameworks …

demography and socio-cultural anthropology and with their efforts to understand population processes: mainly fertility, migration …

question: Should governments in Europe push much more aggressively for gender equality to raise fertility? The four debaters …

, arguing that the claims that fertility must be increased are based on myths. It rejects a more aggressive pursuit of gender … for fertility purposes, stating that this narrows the realm of gender equality. The paper is based on a debate held at the …This paper argues against the suggestion that governments should push for gender equality more aggressively in order to …

This article investigates continued childbearing among the highly educated according to profession and gender. The … groups to combine a professional career and children. In this respect gender still matters despite women’s inroads in …

The Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) is one of the two pillars of the Generations and Gender Programme designed to …-generational and gender relationships. The survey applies the life course approach, focussing on the processes of childbearing … values and attitudes. Other domains covered by the survey include gender relationships, household composition and housing …