Reconciling studies of men’s gender attitudes and fertility

The New Roles of Men and Women and Implications for Families and Societies

“…Both conceptual frameworks highlight the relevance of the transformation of gender roles outside and within the family, in line with McDonald's views on the importance of gender equality and gender equity for fertility change (McDonald 2000(McDonald , 2006. In addition, they call for attention to men's situation, which until relatively recently has been quite neglected (for exceptions see Goldscheider and Kaufman 1996;Puur et al 2008;Goldscheider et al 2010), even though the decline in male wages and men's labour force activity along with growing labour market uncertainty have been recognized Booth et al 1999;Mills et al 2005).…”

“…Moreover, mothers need to accept fathers as their equals when it comes to parental care for children in order for the new male role to become established (Allen and Hawkins 1999). Until men's contribution to domestic tasks and care work can match that of women in paid work, the gender revolution will remain incomplete (Esping-Andersen 2009; Goldscheider et al 2010).…”

Domestic division of labour and fertility preference in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan

“…The variability of findings is probably partially attributable to the fact that the transition to the second stage of the gender revolution is a recent phenomenon (Goldscheider, Bernhardt, and Lappegård 2015;Goldscheider, Oláh, and Puur 2010), with the pace of transition varying between societies (Sullivan, Billari, and Altintas 2014). This paper seeks to establish whether East Asian societies can be located within these wider trends.…”

What is Your Couple Type? Gender Ideology, Housework Sharing and Babies

“…In contrast to Puur et al (2008), they reported a negative association between men's egalitarian attitudes and fertility. As Goldscheider, Oláh, and Puur (2010) explained, the contrast in those findings was to a great extent driven by differences in the way gender ideology was measured: Puur et al (2008) relied on opinions on the man's and the father's role in the family, whereas Westoff and Higgins (2009) used opinions on the role of the woman in society and her choice between work and children. As already highlighted in an extensive literature review by Coltrane (2000) on household labour, gender attitudes tend to better predict men's participation in housework than women's.…”