With the growing prevalence of the dual-earner family model in industrialized countries the
gendered nature of the relationship between employment and parenting has become a key …

This paper analyzes the role of public policy for Sweden's combination of high female labour
force participation and high levels of fertility in the late 1980s and early 1990s. We present …

This paper is concerned with the influence of a woman's educational status on the risk that
her marriage will break down, as manifested in divorce levels of Swedish women in their first …

In the first part of the gender revolution, women have entered the public spheres of
education, employment and politics. The next step is the process by which men enter the …

To what extent has the traditional male provider model shifted towards a model of equal
economic partnership in the Scandinavian welfare states, and how can current social …

This study aims to advance our understanding of why women are underrepresented in
legislatures around the world, and what accounts for the wide variation over time and across …

El trabajo a tiempo parcial ha sido tradicionalmente una fórmula de ocupación poco
utilizada en España. No obstante, un análisis de su evolución en las últimas décadas …

One trend in family policy across Western Europe in recent years has been the expansion of
caring time policies–maternity, paternity and parental leaves, as well as part-time work …

Recent observations of higher rates of labour‐market activity among women with a high‐
earning spouse and widened household inequality have spurred research interest in …

At the end of the 1980s the labour force participation rate of Swedish women was the
highest among the industrialized countries. This has often been interpreted to mean that a …