Gender and Family Change in Industrialized Countries

Bibliographic Data

ID24158424
EditorsKaren Oppenheim Mason, An-Magritt Jensen
Year1995
Publication date1995-09-28
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueGender and family change in industrialized countries (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780198289708.001.0001
ISBN9780198289708
LanguageEN
Citations received18

This volume focuses on the relationship between change in the family and change in the roles of women and men on contemporary industrial societies. Of central concern is whether change in gender roles has fuelled - or is merely historically coincident with - such changes in the family as rising divorce rates, increases in out-of-wedlock childbearing, declining marriage rates, and a growing disconnection between the lives of men and children. Covering more that twenty countries, including the USA, the countries of western Europe, and Japan, each essay in the volume is organized around an important theoretical or policy question; all offer new data analyses, and several offer prescriptions of how to fashion more equitable and humane family and gender systems. The second demographic transition and microeconomic theory of marital exchange are the dominant theoretical models considered; several chapters feature state-of-the-art quantitative analyses of large scale surveys.

Demographic economics · Developed country · Development economics · Disconnection · Economics · Geography · Political science · Population · Scale (ratio) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Demography · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Rural development and sustainability