Education and Gender Egalitarianism: The Case of China

2004 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 311-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoling Shu
Keyword(s):  
Gender Egalitarianism ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals Are They Acculturating? Europe's Immigrants and Gender Egalitarianism

Social Forces ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 899-928 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Roder ◽  
P. Muhlau
Keyword(s):  
Gender Egalitarianism ◽  
And Gender

Gender equality and work–family conflict from a cross-national perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 385-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gayle Kaufman ◽  
Hiromi Taniguchi
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Logistic Models ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Gender Egalitarianism ◽  
Country Level ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The Individual

This study examines the relationship between gender ideology at the individual level, gender equality at the country level, and women and men’s experiences of work interference with family (WIF) and family interference with work (FIW). We use data from the 2012 International Social Survey Programme as well as the 2011 to 2015 Human Development Reports. Our sample consists of 24,547 respondents from 37 countries. Based on multilevel mixed-effects logistic models, we find that women are more likely than men to experience WIF and FIW. At the individual level, traditional gender ideology positively predicts WIF and FIW. Women and men who reside in more gender-unequal countries have a higher likelihood of FIW while men in these contexts also are more likely to experience WIF. Societal gender inequality is more consequential for those who hold less traditional gender ideology. In conclusion, gender egalitarianism at the individual level and gender equality at the country level are both associated with less WIF and FIW. Policies that seek to address work–family balance should incorporate measures to promote gender equality.

Italy

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Father Involvement ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Gender Egalitarianism ◽  
Paternity Leave ◽  
Labour Market Participation ◽  
And Gender

Italy is a familistic welfare state with a traditional breadwinner regime that is slowly changing into a dual earner regime among the younger generations. The chapter investigates how the tensions among cultural norms of familism, changing laws expanding paternal rights and obligations, and narratives of active fathers affect father involvement with young children. In Italy, conceptions of the traditional and modern fathers coexist. Empirical evidence suggests that the new fathers are hesitant to emerge. While the involvement of fathers in family life is growing, commitment to caring activities depends on father’s level of education and partner’s labour market participation. Only a minority of men who are younger and who are more inclined to accept a model of masculinity that includes active fatherhood is highly engaged with their children. Institutional support is necessary to encourage more father involvement and gender egalitarianism, such as extension of compulsory and paid paternity leave, legal mechanisms to encourage fathers to take parental leave, implementation of planned educational programs designed to enhance fathering skills and to promote father involvement, and investment in research on fathers.

Women’s Family and Employment Life Courses Across Twentieth-Century Europe: The Role of Policies and Norms

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Zagel ◽  
Zachary Van Winkle
Keyword(s):  
Family Policy ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Gender Egalitarianism ◽  
Context Data ◽  
Life Courses ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Twentieth Century Europe ◽  
International Social

Abstract This article examines longitudinal patterns of work–family reconciliation across Europe and whether the influence of defamilizing policies on those patterns is contingent on the normative context. Data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement and sequence analysis are used to reconstruct and analyze women’s family and employment life courses from age fifteen to fifty years, born in the period between 1924 and 1966 from fourteen countries. Historic family policy data and gender attitudes collected in the International Social Survey Programme are included in multinomial regressions. Results suggest that defamilization and gender egalitarianism increase the labor market attachment of women with traditional family life courses independently.

Motivations, Constraints, and Lifestyle Adjustments Associated with Urban Taiwanese Women's Use of Sport and Health Clubs

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 971-981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun -Chang Yen ◽  
Li-Hsing Ho ◽  
Wei-San Su ◽  
Yao-Shun Hsueh ◽  
Hsiu-Chin Huang
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Gender Egalitarianism ◽  
Health Clubs ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Leisure Sports ◽  
Self Development ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Current Emphasis

The current emphasis on women's health and gender egalitarianism in Taiwan means that urban women are joining sport and health clubs in pursuit of self-development. The aim in this study was to develop and analyze the motivations, constraints, and methods of lifestyle adjustment in regard to urban women's use of sport and health clubs in Taiwan. Participants were 373 women from 5 cities in Taiwan and tests were conducted using structural equation modeling. The results indicated that the motivations, constraints, and lifestyle adjustments with regard to leisure sports positively affected women's participation in sports clubs. Specifically, although participation constrains acted as crucial antecedent variables influencing motivations to participate, they did not have any influence on lifestyle adjustments. Based on the results of this study, suggestions are made about management and policies of sport and health clubs.

scholarly journals Post-conflict Reconciliation, Learning with Egalitarian Peoples: South Africa after Apartheid (palabra) (pensamiento), (palabra)... Y oBra

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernedette Muthien
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Gender Egalitarianism ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Conflict Reconciliation

This text deals with post-conflict resolution in post-Apartheid South Africa, and the need to learn with women-centred indigenous peoples about indigenous knowledge and technologies, especially about social and gender egalitarianism, nonviolence and prosperity through sharing. Ultimately only freeing consciousness will liberate actions and peoples, as creativity and poetry provide joy and inspiration during and after struggles.

scholarly journals The nexus between education and fertility in six European countries

Genus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Impicciatore ◽  
Francesca Tomatis
Keyword(s):  
Home Economics ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Second Child ◽  
Gender Egalitarianism ◽  
Italian Case ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Many ◽  
Fertility Choices

AbstractGiven the many linkages between education and family behaviour, the expansion of higher education especially among women in recent decades may have important consequences for fertility in Europe. This is a crucial factor in both the New Home Economics (NHE) theory and the Second Demographic Transition (SDT) that predict a negative association between fertility and education. However, more recently, the Gender Revolution (GR) approach has emphasised the role of gender egalitarianism both in society and within households as a boost for fertility. By adopting a comparative perspective on six European countries, this paper reports our research on the effect of education on the fertility choices in light of the foregoing three different theoretical explanations. Using data from the second wave of Generation and Gender surveys (GGS) for Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, and Poland, and the ISTAT survey “Famiglie e Soggetti Sociali” for Italy, we estimated the propensity to have the first and the second child birth on women born between 1940 and 1979 by means of multiprocess hazard models.For the first childbirth, the influence of education on fertility behaviours not only remains important but also tends to increase among younger cohorts. This result matches the NHE and SDT explanation, suggesting a similar evolution towards an erosion of the family. Conversely, for the second childbirth we found marked differences among countries suggesting an East-West polarisation giving support to the GR approach. However, peculiarities for the Italian case linked to a tempo effect emphasize the need to go beyond the West-East dichotomy.

Does it matter where you live? Examining the impact of gender, gender egalitarianism and city context on the work–family interface

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ujvala Rajadhyaksha
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Market ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Gender Egalitarianism ◽  
Urban City ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThis study asks the following research question: does “city” context interact with gender and gender egalitarianism (GE) to impact the positive (WFPOS – work–family positive spillover) and negative (WFC - work-family conflict) aspects of the work–family (WF) interface of working men and women in India.Design/methodology/approachMANCOVA analysis is used to examine data gathered from 250+ working men and women from eight different Indian cities that were ranked based on the 2018 Ease of Living (EOL) Index.FindingsThere was no significant main effect of gender on WF interface variables. Low levels of GE and low EOL were significantly associated with high levels of WFC and WFPOS. There was a significant interaction between gender, GE and city. An examination of within-gender differences indicated that in low-EOL cities, men and women with low values of GE (traditionals) had significantly higher time-based WFC than men and women with high values of GE (egalitarians). Additionally, traditional women reported higher WFPOS than egalitarian women. In high-EOL cities, traditional men reported significantly higher time-based WFC than egalitarian men. There were no significant differences between women.Research limitations/implicationsGender, along with gender-related attitudinal and contextual variables, does a better job of explaining variance in the WF interface as compared to gender alone. Results support the notion that high WFPOS and high WFC can co-occur in contexts of change and transition such as rapidly growing urban centers.Practical implicationsThe results have significance for work–family practitioners as well as urban city planners looking to improve the quality of work–life in India and other similar emerging market economies experiencing rapid urbanization.Originality/valueThe study extends work–family research by bringing aspects of urban planning and gender studies into an understanding of the work–family interface.

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