Attitudes to the gender division of labor and the transition to fatherhood: Are egalitarian men in Sweden more likely to remain childless?
Attitudes to the gender division of labor and the transition to fatherhood: Are egalitarian men in Sweden more likely to remain childless?
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DOI：
10.1177/0001699316645930
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发表时间：
2016-08-01
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1.7
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Turunen, Jani
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作者：
Bernhardt, Eva;Goldscheider, Frances;Turunen, Jani
过去几十年来，包括瑞典在内的大多数欧洲国家第一胎生育大幅推迟，社会性别平等被认为是推迟生育的主要原因之一。在生命历程中继续推迟为人父母可能会导致最终无子女，即个人将在没有成为父母的情况下达到其生育期的终点。随着大多数欧洲国家的最终无子女率不断上升，对无子女的研究也变得更加普遍。然而，大多数这些研究都专门针对女性，并且关于导致最终不生育的原因（尤其是男性）的理论显然还不成熟。在本文中，我们将通过调查瑞典家庭性别平等态度与男性过渡到为人父母之间的长期关系，为这一研究领域做出贡献。我们的因变量非常接近最终的无子女情况。我们使用了瑞典 1999 年 22-30 岁仍无子女的年轻人对性别分工态度的小组调查数据，并结合了 1999-2012 年期间的出生登记数据。这篇文章表明，从长远来看，更平等的男性所证明的最初成为父亲的延迟并不能得到弥补。
Most European countries, including Sweden, have witnessed considerable postponement of first births over the past several decades, and societal gender equality has been mentioned among the central reasons for the delay in childbearing. Continued postponement of parenthood over the life course can result in final childlessness, i.e. the individual will reach the end of his/her reproductive period without having become a parent. As levels of final childlessness have been increasing in most European countries, studies of childlessness have become more common. However, most of these studies deal exclusively with women, and the theorizing regarding what leads to final childlessness, particularly among men, is clearly underdeveloped. In this paper we will contribute to this research area by investigating the long-term relationships between attitudes toward domestic gender equality and men's transition to parenthood in Sweden. Our dependent variable is a close approximation of final childlessness. We use Swedish panel survey data on attitudes to the gender division of labor among still childless young adults aged 22-30 in 1999, combined with register data on births in the period 1999-2012. The article shows that the initial delay in becoming fathers evidenced by more egalitarian men is not made up in the long term.