“…Moreover, recent research suggests that in Germany the adherence to stereotypical gender roles is still quite common, since fathers report the highest level of life satisfaction when working full-time or even longer (Schröder 2018). Although the majority of previous studies on this topic suggested that an equal division of housework and child care -and, to an even greater extent, the perception that this division is equitable -is advantageous for continued childbearing, especially in countries with a strong emphasis on egalitarian gender roles, such as the Scandinavian societies (e.g., Brodmann, Esping-Andersen, and Güell 2007;Dommermuth, Hohmann-Marriott, and Lappegård 2017;Goldscheider, Bernhardt, and Brandén 2013;Miettinen, Lainala, and Rotkirch 2015), we were unable to replicate these findings for young cohorts of couples in Germany. Instead, women's main responsibility for domestic work had a positive impact on the timing of a second birth with the same partner, while the division of child care and the perception of fairness had no noticeable effect.…”