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More Gender Equality, More Homogamy? A Cohort Comparison in Six European Countries
Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2017 We study whether educational homogamy has increased following the rise of women’s educational attainment and of egalitarian couples in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Falcon Julie, Joye Dominique
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Hybridity of mainly asexually propagating duckweeds in genus Lemna - dead end or breakthrough? [PDF]
New PhytolSummary The cosmopolitan, mainly vegetatively propagating, organ‐reduced monocotyledonous aquatic duckweeds are the smallest and fastest growing angiosperms, distributed world‐wide and flower rarely in nature. Recently, we reported intra‐ and interspecific hybrids and ploidy variants in the genus Lemna.
Lee Y +10 more
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Journal of Family Theory & Review, 2011 I propose that homogamy and heterogamy be used to signify same-sex and opposite-sex unions respectively, including marriage and cohabitation. This is intended to address a terminology impasse that has given us “marriage” versus “same-sex marriage” in popular as well as academic usage. After a brief review of the word origins and scholarly uses of these
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Comparative Population StudiesThe extent of educational homogamy has important consequences for social inequalities and social cohesion. However, little is known about current trends, cross-national differences, and the drivers of educational homogamy in Europe.
Wilfred Uunk
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Gender roles and domestic power in energy-saving home improvements
Buildings & Cities, 2022 The importance of considering gender aspects in studies on residential energy consumption has been acknowledged. However, an important topic is still ignored in gender and energy transitions research: domestic power for men and women differs depending on
Françoise Bartiaux
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Hybridization, Homogamy, and Sympatric Speciation [PDF]
Evolution, 1955 Mayr (1947) has presented a strong case against the hypothesis of sympatric speciation in the course of supporting the universal hypothesis of geographic (or at least microgeographic) speciation. In the summary (p. 286) of that paper he made the following statement: "It is unproven and unlikely that reproductive isolation can develop between contiguous
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Studying Online Behavior: Comment on Anderson et al. 2014 [PDF]
Sociological Science, 2015 As social scientists increasingly employ data from online sources, it is important that we acknowledge both the advantages an limitations of this research. The latter have received comparatively little public attention.
Kevin Lewis
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90 Day Fiancé: Presentations of Status Exchange on the International Marriage Market
Family Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study examines power and status, as constructed by producers on the reality television show 90 Day Fiancé, that comes from being a US citizen on the international marriage market. We investigate what show producers present each partner as offering the other and what this suggests about gender and power in cross‐national ...
Andrea Laurent‐Simpson +2 more
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The association between religious homogamy and reproduction [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2016 Individuals more strongly affiliated to religion have on average more children than less religious ones. Here, based on census data of 3 658 650 women aged 46–60 years from 32 countries provided by IPUMS International and data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (n= 2400 women, aged 53–57 years), we show that religious homogamy is also associated ...
Fieder, Martin, Huber, Susanne
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Editorial on the Special Issue “Changes in Educational Homogamy and Its Consequences”
Comparative Population StudiesRecent decades have seen major changes in the educational profiles of the populations of Western industrialised countries, notably a sharp rise in educational attainment and a reversal of the gender gap in education.
Pia Blossfeld +2 more
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