TY - JOUR
AU - Rizzi, Ester
AB - Eur J Population (2013) 29:131–133 DOI 10.1007/s10680-013-9284-7 Framed by Gender. How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World Cecilia Ridgeway, Oxford University Press, New York, 2011 Ester L. Rizzi Published online: 29 January 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 Since more than a decade, demographers have been interested in the influence of gender equality on fertility behaviour. Seminal theoretical papers were published by Peter McDonald (2000) and Jean-Claude Chesnais (1996), stating that gender equity and fertility are positively related. At the macro level, this means that countries have higher levels of fertility if their policies and their culture advantage female paid work and/or man participation to familial caregiving. The main idea in McDonald’s paper is that gender equality in the family is generally weaker than in non-familial individual-oriented institutions, like education and labour market. As a consequence of this gap, women reduce their fertility to find a happy compromise between their paid work and their main responsibility in the family work. A similar concept is referred to as ‘cultural lag’ in sociological literature. This is also the starting point in Cecilia Ridgeway’s book ‘Framed by gender. How gender inequality persists in the Modern World.’ published in 2011. The author 
TI - Framed by Gender. How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World
JF - European Journal of Population / Revue europ_enne de D_mographie
DO - 10.1007/s10680-013-9284-7
DA - 2013-01-29
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/framed-by-gender-how-gender-inequality-persists-in-the-modern-world-mCa6kIrq8X
SP - 131
EP - 133
VL - 29
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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