Around the globe and starting in the affluent West, women have made major, even
revolutionary, strides toward equality with men. However, while access to major social …

Rational choice theory (RCT) constitutes a major approach of sociological theorizing and
research in Europe. We review key methodological and theoretical contributions that have …

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 …

This book serves as a sequel to two distinguished volumes on capitalism: Continuity and
Change in Contemporary Capitalism (Cambridge, 1999) and Order and Conflict in …

Background: Female physician-researchers do not achieve career success at the same rate
as men. Differences in nonprofessional responsibilities may partially explain this gap …

Scholars argue that gender culture, understood as a set of beliefs, norms, and social
expectations defining masculinities and femininities, plays an important role in shaping …

Our future depends very much on how we respond to three great challenges of the new
century, all of which threaten to increase social inequality: first, how we adapt institutions to …

Households in Canada and Australia have exhibited similar trends in the gendered
allocation of additional child care responsibilities resulting from policy responses to the …