The purpose of this Review is to provide evidence for why gender equality in science,
medicine, and global health matters for health and health-related outcomes. We present a …

Trends toward later and less marriage and childbearing have been even more pronounced
in East Asia than in the West. At the same time, many other features of East Asian families …

This article argues that the trends normally linked with the second demographic transition
(SDT) may be reversed as the gender revolution enters its second half by including men …

Two dominant theories within family research foresee a long‐term decline in marriage,
fertility, and partner stability. They also assume that this “less‐family” scenario will be …

This article challenges the implicit assumption of many cross-national studies that gender-
role attitudes fall along a single continuum between traditional and egalitarian. The authors …

References to the second demographic transition (SDT) have increased dramatically in the
past two decades. The SDT predicts unilinear change toward very low fertility and a diversity …

Although men tended to receive more education than women in the past, the gender gap in
education has reversed in recent decades in most Western and many non-Western …

The recent proliferation of studies examining cross-national variation in the association
between parenthood and happiness reveal accumulating evidence of lower levels of …

Résumé Cet article présente un aperçu des recherches dans le domaine de la fécondité
réalisées dans les sociétés dites avancées, c'est-à-dire les sociétés dans lesquelles le …

Systematic comparisons of fertility developments based on education, gender and country
context are rare. Using harmonized register data, we compare cohort total fertility and …