Gender equity, social institutions and the future of fertility

By P. McDonald. 2000

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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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.”
The impact of family policies on fertility in industrialized countries: a review of the literature (2007, background): “The gender theory proposed by McDonald (2000) makes a similar point in arguing that gender inequalities are responsible for countries' low levels of fertility.”
How Do Changes in Gender Role Attitudes Towards Female Employment Influence Fertility? A Macro-Level Analysis (2015, methodology): “McDonald (2000a, 2000b, 2006) develops this idea further.”
Uncertainties in Female Employment Careers and the Postponement of Parenthood in Germany (2010, background): “In more recent publications, it has been stipulated that youth unemployment, term-limited working contracts, and unstable employment situations also induce a postponement of childbearing (McDonald, 2000, pp. 10–11; Adsera, 2004; Blossfeld et al., 2005; Gonzalez and Jurado-Guerro, 2006).”
Gender‐Role Ideology, Labor Market Institutions, and Post‐industrial Fertility (2016, background): “…of gender inequality (Anderson and Kohler 2015; Arpino, Esping-Andersen and Pessin 2015; Bernhardt and Goldscheider 2006; Esping-Andersen, and Billari 2015; Chesnais 1998; Esping-Andersen 2009; Goldscheider, Bernhardt, and Lappegård 2015; McDonald 2000a, b; 2013; Mills 2010; Mills et al. 2008).”
Work–Family Policy Trade-Offs for Mothers? Unpacking the Cross-National Variation in Motherhood Earnings Penalties (2016, background): “Childcare policies might impact cross-national differences in mothers’ earnings through enabling more continuous employment when children are very young (McDonald, 2000).”
What are the effects of reforms promoting fathers’ parental leave use? (2012, methodology): “In addition, the bonus increases horizontal equity (McDonald, 2006b: 219) between parents and other men and women, especially when we compare mothers with women without children, as it encourages mothers to go back to work earlier.”
Gender Equality and Fertility: Which Equality Matters? (2013, neutral): “The development towards low and lowest-low fertility is associated with different (and incongruent) developments of gender equity in the family and gender equity in individual-oriented institutions (McDonald 2000b).”
Gender equity and fertility intentions in Italy and the Netherlands (2008, background): “More recently, however, gender equity has been posited as an essential link in understanding the low fertility phenomenon (McDonald 2000a; Cooke 2003).”
Family policies in developed countries: a ‘fertility-booster’ with side-effects (2011, background): “…O. Thévenon and A.H. Gauthier tasks between spouses may provide an additional incentive for households to realise their fertility intentions (McDonald, 2000) Availability of childcare: a variable with a positive impact on fertility intentions The availability and affordability of childcare…”
The End of “Lowest‐Low” Fertility? (2009, background): “5, seen by McDonald (2006) as marking a ‘cultural’ divide between countries with ‘very low fertility’ and ‘moderately high fertility’.”
Sustaining Fertility through Public Policy: The Range of Options (2002, background): “For example, while I argue that changes in the level of gender equity within the family are an essential element of a fertility strategy in any country, family organization is fundamental to cultural identity and revolutionary change is rarely a possibility (McDonald, 2000a; McDonald, 2000b).”