Cohabitation among secular Jews in Israel: How ethnicity, education, and employment characteristics are related to young adults' living arrangements

Manor, Avital; Okun, Barbara S.

doi:10.4054/demres.2016.35.32

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“…However, although Jewish women have succeeded in closing gender gaps in the labor market (Mandel & Birgier, 2016), the data often mask differences between women of different levels of religiosity. Secular Jewish women live a liberal lifestyle (Katz & Lavee, 2005) with high rates of employment and education (Manor & Okun, 2016), while also having large families in comparison with other developed countries (Okun, 2016). This is enabled by state support for working mothers and families' recognition of the importance of women's contribution to the workforce (Okun, 2016).…”

Section: The Jewish Populationmentioning

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Relations of religious affiliation group norms, human capital, and autonomy to Israeli men's participation in household duties

Nabwani

2022

Family Relations

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ObjectiveIn this work, I document variation in husbands' participation in household duties, an indicator of gender equality, by comparing ethnoreligious affiliation group, human capital, and autonomy.BackgroundScholars posit a relationship between religiosity and traditional gender relations, impacted by cultural norms and women's human capital. Israel's diverse ethnoreligious landscape provides an excellent context for empirically evaluating posited relationships.MethodThe study analyzed quantitative data from the Israel Social Survey on 1,900 married women (1,529 Jews and 371 Arabs).ResultsHusbands of Arab women were 83% less likely than husbands of Jewish women to share household duties. Among Jewish couples, husbands of traditional‐religious women were 29% less likely than husbands of secular women to share household duties. Further, among Jewish couples, there was no difference in husbands' sharing of household duties between ultra‐Orthodox women and secular women. Among Arabs, Druze husbands were almost 3 times more likely to participate than Muslim husbands. Among Arab Muslims, religious husbands were 2.40 times more likely to share household duties than nonreligious Muslims.ConclusionFindings support C. Goldscheider's culture hypothesis, suggesting that the uniqueness of the affiliation group is most important. However, although human capital did not strongly moderate husbands' participation, women's autonomy did.ImplicationPublic policy should be sensitive to differences between ethnoreligious groups in supporting gender equality. For instance, policy makers should encourage religious leaders to preach values that promote such equality.

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Relations of religious affiliation group norms, human capital, and autonomy to Israeli men's participation in household duties

Nabwani

2022

Family Relations

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Singlehood in Israel

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2024

The Jewish Family in Global Perspective

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Religiosity and Fertility: Jews in Israel

Okun

2017

Eur J Population

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We analyze the relationship between religiosity and fertility among Jews in Israel-a modern democracy in which there is no separation of religion and state. Micro-level data from the 2009 Israel Social Survey are used to perform multivariate analyses of the odds of having at least three children. The findings from separate analyses of women and men are consistent with a theoretical framework, outlined by McQuillan and C. Goldscheider, which suggests how religiosity affects fertility. In particular, measures of the importance of religious community explain in part the higher levels of fertility among some religiosity groups; attitudes toward religion as a social and political institution as well as norms regarding family building over the life course also partly account for the influence of religiosity on fertility. While women's employment activity is significantly related to their fertility, as many economic theories predict, controlling for paid work in regression models does not affect the estimated relationship between religiosity and women's fertility. We conclude that, in the current context, fertility variation across religiosity groups can be understood largely in terms of the cultural, political, and institutional power of religion, and the impact of religion through community, and via norms and ideals.

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Cohabitation among secular Jews in Israel: How ethnicity, education, and employment characteristics are related to young adults' living arrangements

Cited by 6 publications

References 36 publications

Relations of religious affiliation group norms, human capital, and autonomy to Israeli men's participation in household duties

Relations of religious affiliation group norms, human capital, and autonomy to Israeli men's participation in household duties

Singlehood in Israel

Religiosity and Fertility: Jews in Israel

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