Second Births and the Second Shift: A Research Note on Gender Equity and Fertility

By B. M. Torr, S. Short. 2004

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Why do people postpone parenthood? Reasons and social policy incentives. (2011, background): “A series of empirical studies have also demonstrated that the unequal distribution of household labour impacts fertility, but generally only focus on higher order fertility transitions (Ola´h, 2003; Miller Torr and Short, 2004; Tazi-Preve et al ., 2004; Mills et al ., 2008).”
Gender Equality and Fertility: Which Equality Matters? (2013, unknown): “The results tend to depend on the country studied, on the burden of work put on women through employment or through the number of children, and on the share of fathers’ involvement (Cooke 2004; Torr and Short 2004; Esping-Andersen et al. 2007; Mills et al. 2008; Craig and Siminski 2010, 2011).”
Gender Equity and Fertility in Italy and Spain (2009, background): “sphere leads to greater gender equity within the domestic sphere, which in turn countervails some of the negative fertility effect associated with women’s labour force participation (Cooke, 2004; Oláh, 2003; Torr and Short, 2004).”
Family policy and fertility: fathers’ and mothers’ use of parental leave and continued childbearing in Norway and Sweden (2010, background): “Torr and Short (2004) show that individual equity behaviour, in terms of division of household work, seems to correlate with the transition to a second child among US couples.”