This article focuses on the association between couple disagreement and partnership
stability. In particular, we explore the mediating role of macrostructural gender inequality on …

The increasing instability of conjugal unions in European countries has urged social
researchers to deepen gender studies from the point of view of the consequences of couple …

Editor's note: We were saddened to learn last week that the Dutch sociologist Jaap Dronkers
has passed away at the age of 71. He was known among his colleagues not only as an …

Recent sociological observations have indicated that unstable family relations and lone
parenthood present new social risks to society, posing a challenge to the welfare state and …

Over the last several decades, the probability of divorce and separation among married or
cohabiting couples has increased significantly in most European countries, although the …

With the increase in female employment and the decrease in gender labor specialization,
there has also been a marked change in gender role attitudes. An increasing proportion of …

Using two waves of the Generations and Gender Survey for eight European countries, we
test under what conditions couples experience high levels of disagreement over time or …

Data on divorces are gathered by the Czech Statistical Office and thus widely accessible
and well known, but much less information is available about the stability of unmarried …

Traditional gender ideologies suggest that sexual disagreements are associated with union
instability more strongly among men than among women. Previous studies of this topic were …

This chapter looks at how persons in cohabiting unions perceive their relationship and the
probability that they will separate over the following 6 years. People living with a partner are …