Gender equality and fertility intentions revisited

Anneli Miettinen, Stuart Gietel-Basten and Anna Rotkirch
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Anneli Miettinen: Kansaneläkelaitos (Kela)
Stuart Gietel-Basten: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Anna Rotkirch: Väestöliitto (Population Research Institute)

Demographic Research, 2011, vol. 24, issue 20, 469-496

Abstract: Stimulated by the recent debate on gender roles and men’s fertility behaviour (Puur et al. 2008; Westoff and Higgins 2009; Goldscheider, Oláh and Puur 2010), we present evidence from Finland as a country well into the second phase of the so-called gender revolution. We examine how gender role attitudes relate to childbearing intentions at the onset of family life, intentions to have many (3 or more) children, and high personal fertility ideals among low-parity men and women. Gender equality attitudes are measured for both the public and the domestic sphere and the influence of work and family orientation is controlled for. Finding signs of a U-shaped association among men, we conclude that both traditional and egalitarian attitudes raise men’s expected fertility compared to men with intermediate gender attitudes and independently of family values. Among Finnish women the impact of gender attitudes is smaller and more ambiguous.

Keywords: fertility; Europe; Finland; men; gender roles; gender attitudes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.20

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