Claudia Geist
Biographic Data
| ID | 75649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudia Geist |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudia |
| FAMILY NAME | Geist |
| SIGNATURE | GEIST C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1901-3429 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 330 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Lesbian and Gay Families
The term “lesbian and gay families” often refers to the families of lesbians, gay men, and their children. The updated term “queer families” more explicitly applies to a broader range of sexually diverse families, and is less strongly tied to traditional notions of the nuclear family, and includes child‐free families, families of choice, and/or fictive kin. With changing social attitudes toward LGBTQI+ individuals and marriage equality, research …
Coresidence with Grandparents and Children’s Socioemotional Health in Kindergarten
Asexuality
Asexuality refers to people who are not sexually attracted to others. Asexuality exists on a spectrum and the definition can vary from person to person. For example, those who identify as asexual may still engage in sexual activity. Others may identify as aromantic, gray asexual, demisexual, reciprosexual, akoisexual, or aceflux. All of these terms refer to a variety of ways in which people experience asexuality depending on context. Asexual iden…
Embracing Complexity: Variation in Faculty’s Attitudes Toward Inclusive Measures of Gender and Sexuality in Social and Health Sciences Research
In the absence of adequate measurement efforts, expansive gender and sexual identities will remain underexplored in quantitative social science and health research. We use primary survey data (N = 309) to identify factors associated with U.S.based social and health science faculty's attitudes toward inclusive gender and sexuality measures in participant-based research. Results suggest that political science faculty rated expansive gender and sexu…
Don't You Be My Neighbor! Perceptions of Homosexuality in Global Cross-Cultural Perspective, 1990 to 2019
The Authors draw on cognitive sociology and attribution theory to infer whether people classify homosexuality as an identity or a behavior. Using six waves of World Values Survey data covering 85 countries, the authors conduct factor and multilevel regression analyses to examine patterns of intolerance toward gay people alongside racialized groups, immigrants, and users of alcohol or illicit substances, in the context of who constitutes an undesi…
Gender Disparities in the Real World
Our essay addresses the real-life difficulties of discussing and describing gender inequalities. We acknowledge that, at times, falling back on binary heuristics might be necessary to communicate findings, but that this needs to happen in the context of a both/and approach. We argue that quantitative social science can be inclusive, even if there are limits to what data can be analyzed in depth. We conclude that a deep engagement with the complex…
Self-perceived gender expression, discrimination, and mental health disparities in adulthood
Applying a symbolic interactionist and minority stress framework, we examine how self-perceived gender expression and everyday discrimination contributes to gender disparities in mental health using a sample of 5896 cisgender women and 4433 cisgender men from Wave 1 (ages 11–18) and Wave 5 (ages 33–43) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). We estimate Poisson regression to assess counts of depressive sympt…
Do gender differences in housework performance and informal adult caregiving explain the gender gap in depressive symptoms of older adults
We assess whether gender differences in domestic time-use, including informal adult caregiving and housework, explain the gender gap in depression among older adults. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we model depressive symptoms as a function of informal adult caregiving and housework. The analytic sample includes 539 men and 782 women. Findings suggest informal adult caregiving is associated with increased depressive symptoms …
Conceiving of Contraception: World Society, Cultural Resistance, and Contraceptive Use, 1970–2012
Taking world society theory as our point of departure, we examine the effect of world culture on contraceptive use rates around the world. World-cultural rhetoric frames contraception as a necessity for economic development, a human rights issue, and a women’s health matter. Using data on contraceptive use among married women for a sample of 159 countries over the period from 1970 to 2012, we find that linkages to all three sets of discourses are…
Motherlands: How States Push Mothers Out of Employment
Godly husbands and housework: A global examination of the association between religion and men’s housework participation
In studies seeking to understand cultural and institutional influences on the division of domestic labor, religion has often been left out of the picture in favor of economic, gender and welfare state context. By examining men from 34 countries using 2012 International Social Survey (ISSP) data this study explores the ways in which religion is associated with men’s household labor participation. We utilize individual measures of religiosity as we…
Does it get better? Change in depressive symptoms from late-adolescence to early-adulthood, disordered eating behaviors, and sexual identity
Sexual minority youth are often described as at-risk for mental health comorbidities, including disordered eating behavior (DEB) and depression. This study assesses differences in late-adolescent DEB and depressive symptoms among gay/lesbian, bisexual, or mostly-heterosexual individuals, and how their symptoms change across early-adulthood. While sexual minority youth were more likely to report DEB and elevated depressive symptoms in late-adolesc…
Beyond geography: Cultural zones and global patterns of modern-method contraceptive use
To increase understanding of global variation in contraceptive use, we classify countries into "cultural zones" based on religious traditions and geographical regions. Using data for 156 countries, we model modern contraceptive use rates as a function of cultural zones, geographic regions, economic development, women's education, and time. We find that cultural zones explain modern-method contraceptive use better than geographic regions alone, ev…
Progress without Progressives? The Effects of Development on Women's Educational and Political Equality in Cultural Context, 1980 to 2010
Researchers often attribute diminishing gender inequality to economic development. When different aspects of gender inequality are examined, however, evidence points to both cross-national convergence as well as persistent (or even growing) heterogeneity in women's status. To make sense of this contradiction, we examine the extent to which culture moderates the relationship between economic development and gender inequality. We consider two dimen…
Somebody has to Dust! Gender, health, and housework in older couples
This study examines the link between health and housework among older couples. For those out of the paid labor force, many of the standard arguments about relative resources and time availability no longer hold. Women spend more time on domestic tasks than men at any age; however, it is unclear how health shapes the household division of labor based on gender among older adults. This study examines the relative effect of three dimensions of healt…
Mission Impossible? New Housework Theories for Changing Families
Theoretical approaches to housework do not reflect contemporary families and gender relations. We evaluate assumptions about gender and families in three dominant explanations and propose theoretical extensions. First, we suggest a work–family fit approach that examines housework and resources at a household level. Second, we propose the diverse capital perspective that extends earnings centered assessments of housework bargaining. Finally, a “do…
Men's and Women's Marriage and Cohabitation Earnings Gaps in Comparative Perspective
In the United States, marriage has been found to provide a "pay-off" for men's earnings, but there is a scarcity of comparative research to put these findings in context. For women, even less is known regarding the link between marital status and earnings. This study provides insights into whether the financial benefits associated with men's relationships are universal cross-nationally and extend to women. Using data from the Luxembourg Income St…
The Gender of Joiners
Memberships in voluntary associations can provide access to valuable social resources. Generally focusing on high- and middle-income countries, research has demonstrated that to varying degrees in different societies, women have fewer memberships in voluntary associations than men. This study examines membership in voluntary associations globally and thereby the national characteristics that drive the gender disparity. The national characteristic…
Unfinished Business: Disentangling Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Sociological Research on Gender Stratification
Focusing on two major strands of research on gender stratification, labor market inequality and health disparities, we argue that cisnormativity and heteronormativity obscure the rich variation in how people experience their own sense of gender and sexuality, as well as how others perceive them. Although researchers’ reliance on static notions of gender and sexuality is starting to shift, there is room for improvement, especially in the area of g…
Marriage Formation in Context: Four Decades in Comparative Perspective
Marriage formation is deeply embedded in societal context. This study documents trends towards lower marriage rates and delayed marriage in Europe and the US. Using time series analyses, it shows the relevance of economic and gender context in understanding marriage formation. The study extends previous work by including more countries, a longer time period, and by examining changes in predictors of marriage patterns over time. Analyses show that…
Constrained Intentions: Individual Economic Resources, Regional Context, and Fertility Expectations in Germany
Using five waves of the German Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics ( pairfam), we examine how economic circumstances are related to fertility intentions in childless young men and women in East and West Germany. We explore multiple dimensions of fertility intentions: short-term intentions for the next two years, long-term expectations about family size, and uncertainty about these short- and long-term intentions. Our find…
Young Women with Eating Disorders or Disordered Eating Behaviors: Delinquency, Risky Sexual Behaviors, and Number of Children in Early Adulthood
Despite the well-documented link between eating disorders (EDs) and female infertility, it is unknown how EDs or disordered eating behaviors (DEBs) influence overall parity in early adulthood. Using longitudinal data, we examine whether EDs or DEBs during adolescence are linked to the number of children born to young women in early adulthood. We find that EDs or DEBs are associated with increased odds of having three or more children compared to …
His and Hers: Economic Factors and Relationship Quality in Germany
Research has linked economic factors to relationship quality in the United States, primarily using cross-sectional data. In the current study, 2 waves of the Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics data (n = 2,937) were used to test the gendered association between economic factors and relationship satisfaction among young German couples. In contrast to U.S.-based studies, the findings showed striking gender differences in th…
Different Reasons, Different Results: Implications of Migration by Gender and Family Status
Previous research on migration and gendered career outcomes centers on couples and rarely examines the reason for the move. The implicit assumption is usually that households migrate in response to job opportunities. Based on a two-year panel from the Current Population Survey, this article uses stated reasons for geographic mobility to compare earnings outcomes among job migrants, family migrants, and quality-of-life migrants by gender and famil…
Gender Inequalities, Households and the Production of Well-Being in Modern Europe
The Welfare State and the Home: Regime Differences in the Domestic Division of Labour
Comparative research has provided valuable insights into stratification processes; however, the focus has been on the labour market or economic inequalities. This study examines stratification in the home by looking at the division of household labour. Using data from the 1994 International Social Survey Program (ISSP), I investigate the division of household labour in 10 countries (Australia, Austria, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Norway,…
Geographical mobility over the life course: Motivations and implications
Studies of geographical mobility are typically divided into studies of residential mobility, which are assumed to be motivated by family factors, and studies of migration, which are assumed to be motivated by the opportunities for realising economic gains as a result of the move. We use a life course approach and data from the 1999–2005 March Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey to investigate the age trajectorie…
Headed Toward Equality? Housework Change in Comparative Perspective
This paper examined gendered housework in the larger context of comparative social change, asking specifically whether cross-national differences in domestic labor patterns converge over time. Our analysis of data from 13 countries ( N =11,065) from the 1994 and 2002 International Social Survey Program (ISSP), confirmed that social context matters in shaping couples' division of labor at home, but also showed that context affects patterns of chan…
Mission Impossible? New Housework Theories for Changing Families
Theoretical approaches to housework do not reflect contemporary families and gender relations. We evaluate assumptions about gender and families in three dominant explanations and propose theoretical extensions. First, we suggest a work–family fit approach that examines housework and resources at a household level. Second, we propose the diverse capital perspective that extends earnings centered assessments of housework bargaining. Finally, a “do…
Different Reasons, Different Results: Implications of Migration by Gender and Family Status
Previous research on migration and gendered career outcomes centers on couples and rarely examines the reason for the move. The implicit assumption is usually that households migrate in response to job opportunities. Based on a two-year panel from the Current Population Survey, this article uses stated reasons for geographic mobility to compare earnings outcomes among job migrants, family migrants, and quality-of-life migrants by gender and famil…
Marital Name Change as a Window into Gender Attitudes
The need to revise scholars' approach to the measurement of gender attitudes-long dominated by the separate-spheres paradigm-is growing increasingly timely as women's share of the labor force approaches parity with men's. Recent years have seen revived interest in marital name change as a gendered practice with the potential to aid in this task; however, scholars have yet to test its effectiveness as one possible indicator of gender attitudes. In…
His and Hers: Economic Factors and Relationship Quality in Germany
Research has linked economic factors to relationship quality in the United States, primarily using cross-sectional data. In the current study, 2 waves of the Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics data (n = 2,937) were used to test the gendered association between economic factors and relationship satisfaction among young German couples. In contrast to U.S.-based studies, the findings showed striking gender differences in th…
Gender Inequalities, Households and the Production of Well-Being in Modern Europe
Conventions of Courtship: Gender and Race Differences in the Significance of Dating Rituals
Dating rituals include dating-courtship methods that are regularly enacted. This study explores gender and race differences in the relative importance placed on certain symbolic activities previously identified by the dating literature as constituting such rituals. Using information collected from a racially diverse sample of college students ( N = 680), it is found that some traditional gender differences persist, but that these are also cross-c…
Marriage Formation in Context: Four Decades in Comparative Perspective
Marriage formation is deeply embedded in societal context. This study documents trends towards lower marriage rates and delayed marriage in Europe and the US. Using time series analyses, it shows the relevance of economic and gender context in understanding marriage formation. The study extends previous work by including more countries, a longer time period, and by examining changes in predictors of marriage patterns over time. Analyses show that…
Unfinished Business: Disentangling Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Sociological Research on Gender Stratification
Focusing on two major strands of research on gender stratification, labor market inequality and health disparities, we argue that cisnormativity and heteronormativity obscure the rich variation in how people experience their own sense of gender and sexuality, as well as how others perceive them. Although researchers’ reliance on static notions of gender and sexuality is starting to shift, there is room for improvement, especially in the area of g…
Constrained Intentions: Individual Economic Resources, Regional Context, and Fertility Expectations in Germany
Using five waves of the German Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics ( pairfam), we examine how economic circumstances are related to fertility intentions in childless young men and women in East and West Germany. We explore multiple dimensions of fertility intentions: short-term intentions for the next two years, long-term expectations about family size, and uncertainty about these short- and long-term intentions. Our find…
Motherlands: How States Push Mothers Out of Employment
One Germany, Two Worlds of Housework? Examining Employed Single and Partnered Women in the Decade after Unification
Do the different ideological legacies of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) result in persisting differences in women's housework in the unified Germany? In this paper, I examine the housework of employed German women, singles and as well as women with partners, in the decade after unification using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). This comparison allows me to assess the role of …
Coresidence with Grandparents and Children’s Socioemotional Health in Kindergarten
Embracing Complexity: Variation in Faculty’s Attitudes Toward Inclusive Measures of Gender and Sexuality in Social and Health Sciences Research
In the absence of adequate measurement efforts, expansive gender and sexual identities will remain underexplored in quantitative social science and health research. We use primary survey data (N = 309) to identify factors associated with U.S.based social and health science faculty's attitudes toward inclusive gender and sexuality measures in participant-based research. Results suggest that political science faculty rated expansive gender and sexu…
Don't You Be My Neighbor! Perceptions of Homosexuality in Global Cross-Cultural Perspective, 1990 to 2019
The Authors draw on cognitive sociology and attribution theory to infer whether people classify homosexuality as an identity or a behavior. Using six waves of World Values Survey data covering 85 countries, the authors conduct factor and multilevel regression analyses to examine patterns of intolerance toward gay people alongside racialized groups, immigrants, and users of alcohol or illicit substances, in the context of who constitutes an undesi…
Men's and Women's Marriage and Cohabitation Earnings Gaps in Comparative Perspective
In the United States, marriage has been found to provide a "pay-off" for men's earnings, but there is a scarcity of comparative research to put these findings in context. For women, even less is known regarding the link between marital status and earnings. This study provides insights into whether the financial benefits associated with men's relationships are universal cross-nationally and extend to women. Using data from the Luxembourg Income St…
The family of woman: Lesbian mothers, their children, and the undoing of gender
The Welfare State and the Home: Regime Differences in the Domestic Division of Labour
Comparative research has provided valuable insights into stratification processes; however, the focus has been on the labour market or economic inequalities. This study examines stratification in the home by looking at the division of household labour. Using data from the 1994 International Social Survey Program (ISSP), I investigate the division of household labour in 10 countries (Australia, Austria, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Norway,…
Geographical mobility over the life course: Motivations and implications
Studies of geographical mobility are typically divided into studies of residential mobility, which are assumed to be motivated by family factors, and studies of migration, which are assumed to be motivated by the opportunities for realising economic gains as a result of the move. We use a life course approach and data from the 1999–2005 March Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey to investigate the age trajectorie…
One Germany, Two Worlds of Housework? Examining Employed Single and Partnered Women in the Decade after Unification
Do the different ideological legacies of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) result in persisting differences in women's housework in the unified Germany? In this paper, I examine the housework of employed German women, singles and as well as women with partners, in the decade after unification using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). This comparison allows me to assess the role of …
Gender Inequalities, Households and the Production of Well-Being in Modern Europe
Marital Name Change as a Window into Gender Attitudes
The need to revise scholars' approach to the measurement of gender attitudes-long dominated by the separate-spheres paradigm-is growing increasingly timely as women's share of the labor force approaches parity with men's. Recent years have seen revived interest in marital name change as a gendered practice with the potential to aid in this task; however, scholars have yet to test its effectiveness as one possible indicator of gender attitudes. In…
Conventions of Courtship: Gender and Race Differences in the Significance of Dating Rituals
Dating rituals include dating-courtship methods that are regularly enacted. This study explores gender and race differences in the relative importance placed on certain symbolic activities previously identified by the dating literature as constituting such rituals. Using information collected from a racially diverse sample of college students ( N = 680), it is found that some traditional gender differences persist, but that these are also cross-c…
Headed Toward Equality? Housework Change in Comparative Perspective
This paper examined gendered housework in the larger context of comparative social change, asking specifically whether cross-national differences in domestic labor patterns converge over time. Our analysis of data from 13 countries ( N =11,065) from the 1994 and 2002 International Social Survey Program (ISSP), confirmed that social context matters in shaping couples' division of labor at home, but also showed that context affects patterns of chan…
Different Reasons, Different Results: Implications of Migration by Gender and Family Status
Previous research on migration and gendered career outcomes centers on couples and rarely examines the reason for the move. The implicit assumption is usually that households migrate in response to job opportunities. Based on a two-year panel from the Current Population Survey, this article uses stated reasons for geographic mobility to compare earnings outcomes among job migrants, family migrants, and quality-of-life migrants by gender and famil…
His and Hers: Economic Factors and Relationship Quality in Germany
Research has linked economic factors to relationship quality in the United States, primarily using cross-sectional data. In the current study, 2 waves of the Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics data (n = 2,937) were used to test the gendered association between economic factors and relationship satisfaction among young German couples. In contrast to U.S.-based studies, the findings showed striking gender differences in th…
Young Women with Eating Disorders or Disordered Eating Behaviors: Delinquency, Risky Sexual Behaviors, and Number of Children in Early Adulthood
Despite the well-documented link between eating disorders (EDs) and female infertility, it is unknown how EDs or disordered eating behaviors (DEBs) influence overall parity in early adulthood. Using longitudinal data, we examine whether EDs or DEBs during adolescence are linked to the number of children born to young women in early adulthood. We find that EDs or DEBs are associated with increased odds of having three or more children compared to …
The Gender of Joiners
Memberships in voluntary associations can provide access to valuable social resources. Generally focusing on high- and middle-income countries, research has demonstrated that to varying degrees in different societies, women have fewer memberships in voluntary associations than men. This study examines membership in voluntary associations globally and thereby the national characteristics that drive the gender disparity. The national characteristic…
Unfinished Business: Disentangling Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Sociological Research on Gender Stratification
Focusing on two major strands of research on gender stratification, labor market inequality and health disparities, we argue that cisnormativity and heteronormativity obscure the rich variation in how people experience their own sense of gender and sexuality, as well as how others perceive them. Although researchers’ reliance on static notions of gender and sexuality is starting to shift, there is room for improvement, especially in the area of g…
Marriage Formation in Context: Four Decades in Comparative Perspective
Marriage formation is deeply embedded in societal context. This study documents trends towards lower marriage rates and delayed marriage in Europe and the US. Using time series analyses, it shows the relevance of economic and gender context in understanding marriage formation. The study extends previous work by including more countries, a longer time period, and by examining changes in predictors of marriage patterns over time. Analyses show that…
Constrained Intentions: Individual Economic Resources, Regional Context, and Fertility Expectations in Germany
Using five waves of the German Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics ( pairfam), we examine how economic circumstances are related to fertility intentions in childless young men and women in East and West Germany. We explore multiple dimensions of fertility intentions: short-term intentions for the next two years, long-term expectations about family size, and uncertainty about these short- and long-term intentions. Our find…
Progress without Progressives? The Effects of Development on Women's Educational and Political Equality in Cultural Context, 1980 to 2010
Researchers often attribute diminishing gender inequality to economic development. When different aspects of gender inequality are examined, however, evidence points to both cross-national convergence as well as persistent (or even growing) heterogeneity in women's status. To make sense of this contradiction, we examine the extent to which culture moderates the relationship between economic development and gender inequality. We consider two dimen…
Somebody has to Dust! Gender, health, and housework in older couples
This study examines the link between health and housework among older couples. For those out of the paid labor force, many of the standard arguments about relative resources and time availability no longer hold. Women spend more time on domestic tasks than men at any age; however, it is unclear how health shapes the household division of labor based on gender among older adults. This study examines the relative effect of three dimensions of healt…
Mission Impossible? New Housework Theories for Changing Families
Theoretical approaches to housework do not reflect contemporary families and gender relations. We evaluate assumptions about gender and families in three dominant explanations and propose theoretical extensions. First, we suggest a work–family fit approach that examines housework and resources at a household level. Second, we propose the diverse capital perspective that extends earnings centered assessments of housework bargaining. Finally, a “do…
Men's and Women's Marriage and Cohabitation Earnings Gaps in Comparative Perspective
In the United States, marriage has been found to provide a "pay-off" for men's earnings, but there is a scarcity of comparative research to put these findings in context. For women, even less is known regarding the link between marital status and earnings. This study provides insights into whether the financial benefits associated with men's relationships are universal cross-nationally and extend to women. Using data from the Luxembourg Income St…
Does it get better? Change in depressive symptoms from late-adolescence to early-adulthood, disordered eating behaviors, and sexual identity
Sexual minority youth are often described as at-risk for mental health comorbidities, including disordered eating behavior (DEB) and depression. This study assesses differences in late-adolescent DEB and depressive symptoms among gay/lesbian, bisexual, or mostly-heterosexual individuals, and how their symptoms change across early-adulthood. While sexual minority youth were more likely to report DEB and elevated depressive symptoms in late-adolesc…
Beyond geography: Cultural zones and global patterns of modern-method contraceptive use
To increase understanding of global variation in contraceptive use, we classify countries into "cultural zones" based on religious traditions and geographical regions. Using data for 156 countries, we model modern contraceptive use rates as a function of cultural zones, geographic regions, economic development, women's education, and time. We find that cultural zones explain modern-method contraceptive use better than geographic regions alone, ev…
Godly husbands and housework: A global examination of the association between religion and men’s housework participation
In studies seeking to understand cultural and institutional influences on the division of domestic labor, religion has often been left out of the picture in favor of economic, gender and welfare state context. By examining men from 34 countries using 2012 International Social Survey (ISSP) data this study explores the ways in which religion is associated with men’s household labor participation. We utilize individual measures of religiosity as we…
Self-perceived gender expression, discrimination, and mental health disparities in adulthood
Applying a symbolic interactionist and minority stress framework, we examine how self-perceived gender expression and everyday discrimination contributes to gender disparities in mental health using a sample of 5896 cisgender women and 4433 cisgender men from Wave 1 (ages 11–18) and Wave 5 (ages 33–43) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). We estimate Poisson regression to assess counts of depressive sympt…
Do gender differences in housework performance and informal adult caregiving explain the gender gap in depressive symptoms of older adults
We assess whether gender differences in domestic time-use, including informal adult caregiving and housework, explain the gender gap in depression among older adults. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we model depressive symptoms as a function of informal adult caregiving and housework. The analytic sample includes 539 men and 782 women. Findings suggest informal adult caregiving is associated with increased depressive symptoms …
Conceiving of Contraception: World Society, Cultural Resistance, and Contraceptive Use, 1970–2012
Taking world society theory as our point of departure, we examine the effect of world culture on contraceptive use rates around the world. World-cultural rhetoric frames contraception as a necessity for economic development, a human rights issue, and a women’s health matter. Using data on contraceptive use among married women for a sample of 159 countries over the period from 1970 to 2012, we find that linkages to all three sets of discourses are…
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