Do Men “Need” A Spouse More Than Women?: Perceptions of The Importance of Marriage for Men and Women

Kaufman, Gayle; Goldscheider, Frances

doi:10.1111/j.1533-8525.2007.00069.x

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“…Thus, higher education can reduce the attractiveness of roles related to marital life and leads to later marriage. In fact, previous research suggests that family roles, including marriage and childbearing, are less central among more educated people because they are more likely to value gender equality and less likely to hold family-related attitudes (Goldscheider & Goldscheider, 1993;Kaufman & Goldscheider, 2007).…”

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Women’s education, time use and marriage in Iran

Torabi

Abbasi-Shavazi

2016

Asian Population Studies

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In many parts of the world, higher education has increased female chances of paid work and reduced the economic benefits of marriage. In Iran, however, female labour force participation has remained in low rates despite considerable improvements in female education. In the absence of direct economic benefits of education for women, this paper uses data from the 2009 Time Use Survey, representing urban areas of Iran, to explore another pathway of the impact of education on transition to marriage. It is postulated that female education can lead to later marriage by changing women's role priorities, at least in two ways. While enrolment in education is time-consuming and incompatible with requirements of marital life, higher education can increase the chances and desire for engagement in alternatives to the roles related to marriage. The findings provide partial support for both explanations. These findings not only deepen our understanding about differentials in the time use and the potential pathway of the impact of female education on marriage, but also provide important information for policy makers who are concerned with marital and fertility behaviours of the large cohort of young educated women in Iran.

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Section: Review Of the Literaturementioning

confidence: 96%

Women’s education, time use and marriage in Iran

Torabi

Abbasi-Shavazi

2016

Asian Population Studies

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“…In addition to the macro contexts, social locations of individuals, such as gender, marital status, level of education, and age are found to have impacts on gender role attitudes, with women, unmarried people, the more educated, and young people all having more nontraditional views (Cunningham, ; Davis & Greenstein, ; Kaufman & Goldscheider, ; Koropeckyj‐Cox & Pendell, ). Social context across survey years may be associated with period effects on the entire population, and as discussed next, in the first decade of the 2000s the Japanese public was divided between the two competing images of “proper” gender roles (i.e., nontraditional vs. traditional).…”

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Gender Role Attitudes: An Examination of Cohort Effects in Japan

Piotrowski

Yoshida

Johnson

et al. 2019

J of Marriage and Family

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Objective: This study examines cohort differences in attitudes toward women's roles within marriage in Japan. Background: Japan has undergone dramatic sociocultural shifts in the 20th century that have shaped childhood experiences differently by cohort. Sociodemographic perspectives predict cohort effects, which suggest the lasting impact of experiences during the formative years on attitudes. Method: This study employs a hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis and uses repeated cross-sectional data from the 2000 to 2012 Japanese General Social Survey (N = 31,912), a nationwide probability survey. Results: Among cohorts born before 1960, for both sexes, attitudes toward wife's employment and a gender-based division of labor were significantly less traditional for later born cohorts. However, younger cohorts born in 1960 and after were not significantly different in their attitudes from the cohort born in the 1950s. Conclusion:This study suggests the strong impact of ideological shifts and mothers' homemaking role (experienced in one's formative years) on gender role attitudes. It points to the important and lasting influence of structural contexts on attitudes and hence cohort effects. Implications: This study contributes to our understanding of attitudinal change (and stagnation) toward gender roles and has policy implications for Japan and other countries characterized by low marriage and fertility rates.

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“…Perhaps the best evidence for the hegemony of marriage is the extent to which it is regarded as the best option. In the U.S. most question whether anyone, especially men, can have a satisfying life without being married, but the young are less likely to share this view ( Kaufman and Goldscheider 2007 ). Between the 1960s and the end of the 20 th century U.S. trends were small and inconsistent for the happiness, importance, and superiority of marriage ( Thornton and Young-DeMarco 2001 ).…”

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Children’s union status and contact with mothers

Treas¹,

Lui²,

Gubernskaya³

2014

DemRes

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BACKGROUNDConsistent with the deinstitutionalization-of-marriage thesis, studies report a decline in support for marital conventions and increased approval of other relationship types. Generalizations are limited by the lack of cross-national research for a broad domain of attitudes on marriage and alternative arrangements, and by the lack of consensus on what counts as evidence.OBJECTIVEAcknowledging the conceptual distinction between expectations for behavior inside and outside marriage, we address the deinstitutionalization debate by testing whether support for marital conventions has declined for a range of attitudes across countries.METHODSBased on eleven International Social Survey Program items replicated between the late 1980s and the 2000s, OLS regressions evaluate attitude changes in up to 21 countries.RESULTSConsistent with the deinstitutionalization argument, disapproval declined for marital alternatives (cohabitation, unmarried parents, premarital and same-sex sex). For attitudes on the behavior of married people and the nature of marriage the results are mixed: despite a shift away from gender specialization, disapproval of extramarital sex increased over time. On most items, most countries changed as predicted by the deinstitutionalization thesis.CONCLUSIONSAttitude changes on ‘new relationships’ and marital alternatives are compatible with the deinstitutionalization of marriage. Beliefs arguably more central to the marital institution do not conform as neatly to this thesis. Because results are sensitive to the indicators used, the deinstitutionalization of marriage argument merits greater empirical and conceptual attention.

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Do Men “Need” A Spouse More Than Women?: Perceptions of The Importance of Marriage for Men and Women

Cited by 34 publications

References 29 publications

Women’s education, time use and marriage in Iran

Women’s education, time use and marriage in Iran

Gender Role Attitudes: An Examination of Cohort Effects in Japan

Children’s union status and contact with mothers

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