From oneFin de Siècle to another: The educated woman and the declining birth-rate

Mackinnon, Alison

doi:10.1007/bf03219601

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“…Coltrane (2004) suggests that those American women who work in prestigious professions as doctors, lawyers and bankers face more difficulty in combining work and family than those in less prestigious professions, because of the extremely high demands of these professions, and the absence of significant moves towards flexibility or 'family friendliness' in them. Some Australian literature also describes the difficulties in combining children and career, particularly for well-educated and/or professional women (APESMA 2002;McKinnon 1995;Pocock 2003;Summers 2003). 2 Earlier work has also emphasized the difficulties faced by professional women in achieving work-family balance, especially for high-earning, high-prestige professional women who work without standard working hours, such as doctors, lawyers and consultants with consulting firms (Franklin and Tueno 2004).…”

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A narrowing gap? Trends in the childlessness of professional women in Australia 1986–2006

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This paper examines whether the gap in fertility between women with higher education and in professional occupations and other women has narrowed or widened over time in Australia. Using data from the Australian Census of Population and Housing 1986, 1996, the paper focuses on levels of childlessness. Both working women (using occupational categories) and all women (using educational attainment) aged between 20 and 44 were examined. Focusing particularly on women working in, or qualified for, some selected high-prestige professions (doctors, lawyers, dentists and vets), as well as on women with other tertiary qualifications and working in other professional or managerial occupations, the findings suggest that, between 1986 and 2006, childlessness has grown at a slower rate for women with tertiary education than for all women, although women with tertiary education continue to have the highest proportion of childlessness. Our findings for working women were similar, with women working in selected prestigious occupations having the highest rates of childlessness of all working women, but with this growing at a slower rate than was the case overall.

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A narrowing gap? Trends in the childlessness of professional women in Australia 1986–2006

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“What’s going on in my body?”: gaps in menstrual health education and face validation of My Vital Cycles®, an ovulatory menstrual health literacy program

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There is a high prevalence of adolescent girls with ovulatory menstrual (OM) dysfunction, which is associated with school absenteeism and mental health challenges. Low menstrual health literacy among this group has evoked calls to review OM health education. This qualitative study sought to explore gaps in current OM health education and to validate a holistic school-based OM health literacy program named My Vital Cycles®. Findings are based on 19 written reflections, six focus group discussions and three interviews conducted with 28 girls aged 14–18 years from 11 schools, and five mothers. Six themes compared current OM health education with My Vital Cycles®: understating health, comprehensiveness, resources, teaching, parents and cycle tracking. Future refinements to the program comprised: inclusion of the complete reproductive lifespan, use of visual media and developing a mobile application. These findings inform future research in a whole school approach, strengths-based teaching and changes in the health curriculum.

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From oneFin de Siècle to another: The educated woman and the declining birth-rate

Cited by 2 publications

References 12 publications

A narrowing gap? Trends in the childlessness of professional women in Australia 1986–2006

A narrowing gap? Trends in the childlessness of professional women in Australia 1986–2006

“What’s going on in my body?”: gaps in menstrual health education and face validation of My Vital Cycles®, an ovulatory menstrual health literacy program

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