I examine how one central aspect of the family environment - sibling sex composition - affects women's gender … for first-born women. I show that women with a brother acquire more traditional gender roles, as measured through their …

address. This paper contributes to a better understanding of the roles of work and family in women's life trajectories …The reconciliation of family and work is one of the "new social risks" contemporary welfare states are challenged to … compare distinctive life-course employment profiles of mothers across 13 European countries. After analyzing selection …

generations of Chechen women in Austria, Poland and Germany and their radically different gender practices. The analysis shows … reception and the lack of recognition experienced by refugees in the receiving countries. Rather, it is an outcome of women … on their adaptation strategies in exile; most notably, on how the women perceive and make use of the opportunity …

, models that adhere to Bobbitt-Zeher’s theory concerning the gendered effect of family formation call into question her … finding that “values appear to matter only modestly, while family formation has virtually no effect on the income gap”. …