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Life‐cycle living standards of male‐headed households: Evidence from Stockholm, 1800–80
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Recent research in economic history argues for using a household life cycle standard‐of‐living approach that includes the income and expenses of all household members and considers fluctuations in the household over the life course. This study builds on that approach by empirically examining the development of living standards in male‐headed ...
Anton Svensson
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Exploring the leaky pipeline: Tokenism, status group effects, or self‐selection?
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract In most European universities today, more than 50% of bachelor's degrees are awarded to women, but the corresponding share of full professorships is only about 25%. This phenomenon is called the leaky pipeline. Most explanations refer to gender biases and stereotypes, motherhood, discrimination, and tokenism.
Margit Osterloh, Katja Rost
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Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund, 2013 This article explores the way in which people with unwanted childlessness who are undergoing the New Reproductive Technologies (NRTs) interpret and experience such technologies and their own affliction after the approval of Law 40/2004 (the first ...
Ilaria Lesmo
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Integrating Merit and Equality to Address Gender Inequality at Work
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although the extant literature provides a comprehensive account of workplace gender inequalities, the mechanisms that produce inequalities, and the underlying assumptions and principles of those mechanisms, remain opaque. The concept of “merit,” although morally persuasive and ubiquitous in organizational contexts, is a significant point of ...
Paula McDonald +2 more
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Childlessness and Economic Development: A Survey [PDF]
, 2019 This chapter shows why, beyond average fertility, childlessness matters in itself. Childlessness reacts to economic incentives in a peculiar way, which cannot be described by usual economic models of fertility. We make a distinction between childlessness due to poverty and childlessness due to economic opportunities.
de La Croix, David +2 more
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Mother, Musician, Performer: Living the Impossible?
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article draws on 19 qualitative in‐depth interviews with classically trained musicians in Australia and the UK, who have an active performing career and identify as mothers. Building on pioneering research on motherhood, work, and leadership in the creative industries, this article explores how mothers navigate the challenges of a ...
Sally Savage, Christina Scharff
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The unbearable (financial) burdens of parenting
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Alya Guseva
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Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Women's work experiences during COVID‐19 illuminated or exacerbated existing organizational divides between mothers and childfree employees as presumptions related to time management, differences in access to resources, and implicit organizational expectations became more visible.
Cristin A. Compton +2 more
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Why do Polish Women Want to Stay Childless? Analysis of Voluntary Childlessness Motives
Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu, 2023 The phenomenon of voluntary childlessness is increasingly apparent in the modern world contributing to the problem of an ageing society. There are numerous motives of voluntary childlessness indicated in the literature that are especially related to the ...
Justyna Wilak
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Bildung und Kinderlosigkeit in Österreich und in Schweden
Journal of Family Research, 2009 This article deals with the association between educational level, educational line, and childlessness among Austrian and Swedish women born 1955-59. In both countries women educated for teaching jobs or for health occupations have lower childlessness ...
Gerda Neyer
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