Demographic Research - Uncovering what matters: Family life-course aspects and personal wealth in late working age (Volume 52 - Article 22 | Pages 689–740)

Volume 52 - Article 22 | Pages 689–740

California wildfires force students to think about the connections between STEM and society

In this course, eight professors share their disciplinary perspectives to help students analyze proposed interventions for increasing wildfire risks.

Tenure Track lecturer (Research) 'Sociology: Sociology of Inequality and Inclusion'

Tenure Track lecturer (Research) 'Sociology: Sociology of Inequality and Inclusion'

GESIS Training Courses

A Visualization of U.S. Couples’ Money Arrangements

Education and Social Inequality across the Life Course - Sciencesconf.org

Why do gendered divisions of labour persist? Parental leave take-up among adoptive and biological parents

Abstract. Mothers’ longer time out of the labour market due to parental leave has been proposed as one of the main determinants of the gender pay gap. This stud

Life-Course Trajectories of Childless Women: Country-Specific or Universal? - European Journal of Population

While existing research has documented complexities in biographies of childless women, few studies to date have systematically examined the life-course pathways of the childless from a comparative, cross-country perspective. In this paper, we analyse biographies of childless women in four countries—Germany, Italy, Poland, and the United States—in order to investigate whether pathways into childlessness are country-specific or commonly shared across institutional, cultural, and geographical settings. Partnership, education, and employment histories are examined using sequence analysis with dynamic Hamming distance and cluster analysis. Discrepancy analysis indicates a country-effect in women’s biographies although life-course patterns identified in each country share similarities. Overall, seven life-course trajectories have been identified, with the most numerous cluster comprising single, working women who completed their education at a relatively young age. The results highlight a marked variation in the life-courses of childless women. Put together, these findings provide descriptive evidence for both country-specificity and cross-country similarity in the pathways to childlessness.

Frühjahrstagung der Sektion „Soziale Ungleichheit und Sozialstrukturanalyse" – GESIS

GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften