Societal Agreement on Gender Role Attitudes and Childlessness in 38 Countries.

ABSTRACT: Many authors argue that levels of childlessness and fertility are a function of changing gender relations, but the mechanisms behind this association remain unclear and mainly untested. This study argues that the societal variation in gender role attitudes explains the link: a great variation in attitudes among potential partners leads to uncertainty and conflicts, which depresses people's propensity for parenthood. This idea is tested with multilevel logistic regression models for 6305 individuals in 38 countries on all continents, using ISSP 2012 data. Measures for the average gender role attitude in the society as well as the dispersion in attitudes are regressed on whether individuals have at least one child or are childless. Attitudes are captured using factor analysis and are opinion

SUBMITTER: Hudde A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6261854 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature