Gender Equity in Theories of Fertility Transition

By P. McDonald. 2000

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Subfields: Gender Studies, General Health Professions, Political Science and International Relations

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The Changing Institutional Context of Low Fertility (2003, background): “McDonald (2000) refers to differential rates of institutional change in family and in nonfamilial institutions and Esping-Anderson (1999) discusses the interaction of family, economy and public policy to produce distinct social welfare regimes (also see Pampel 2001: Ch. 5). Regardless, women’s pref”
Why do people postpone parenthood? Reasons and social policy incentives. (2011, background): “Higher institutional gender equity, such as that witnessed in Scandi-navia, enables individuals to combine work and family, thereby either preventing or stopping the process of additional birth postponement (Chesnais, 1996; McDonald, 2000a, b, 2006).”
Marriage and Family in East Asia: Continuity and Change (2015, background): “Our theoretical framework for understanding patterns of change and stability in East Asian families draws upon the work of McDonald (2000, 2009, 2013), whose gender equity theory of fertility change emphasizes tension between growing opportunities for women outside the family and limited change in…”
Homeownership Regimes and Low Fertility (2010, background): “McDonald (2002), for example, points to gender equity: the combination of a conflict or inconsistency between high gender equity in individual-oriented social institutions and sustained gender inequity in family-oriented social institutions.”
New Cohort Fertility Forecasts for the Developed World: Rises, Falls, and Reversals (2013, background): “Our results show that the key dimensions of socioeconomic development that previous research has hypothesized to be important determinants of fertility increases – the Human Development Index (Myrskylä, Kohler and Billari 2009), per capita Gross Domestic Product (Luci and Thévenon 2010), and gender ”
Low Fertility and the State: The Efficacy of Policy (2006, background): “In keeping with gender equity theory (Joshi 1998; McDonald 2000a), they conclude that the difference between the two countries is brought about by public policy in relation to work and family.”
Uncertainty and Narratives of the Future: A Theoretical Framework for Contemporary Fertility (2020, background): “More recent developments in demographic theory stress the importance of gender equity within couples and at the societal level in understanding trends and cross–country differences in fertility rates (McDonald 2000).”
Low fertility in Europe: causes implications and policy options. (2006, background): “Looking forward, McDonald (2000b) has proposed the following comprehensive “toolbox” of public”
Happiness and Childbearing Across Europe (2012, background): “For instance, high fertility in Scandinavian countries is often attributed to their generous support to families with young children, which has steadily increased with higher educational enrolment of women (Gauthier 1999; McDonald 2000).”
Gender Differences in Time Use over the Life Course in France, Italy, Sweden, and the US (2011, background): “It is not difficult to observe that the Western countries with very low fertility rates are those with a gender regime less equal than in countries where fertility rates are relatively higher, with a strong divide between Southern and Northern Europe (Peter McDonald 2000).”