better self-rated health in Western German mothers and fathers aged 50+, but its relationship with Eastern German women … late motherhood is associated with lower psychological well-being in East Germany. Moreover, among Western German women … "normative" life course track supposedly had adverse effects on women's health in West Germany. …

(18 percent). Consistent employment following maternity, either full-time or part-time, is characteristic of women with … more economic advantages. Women who experience consistent nonemployment disproportionately lack a high school degree, while … women with return to employment following a long break tend to be younger with lower wages prior to maternity. Race is one …

and women who do not become parents. …

, women accumulated 49.8 % less earnings than men. Thus, the GLEG is more than twice as high as the current German gender pay …

) to study parallel work-family trajectories of white and African American men and women combining an intersectional … with maximum one child. For black women we find the strongest association between family lives and careers characterized by … high occupational prestige almost never occur for them. For white women the highest prestige work-family life course …