SubsidieMeestersSocial Inequalities in Work-Family Strategies Within and Across 24 Industrialized Countries
WeEqualize aims to analyze and quantify the impact of the gender revolution on work-family strategies among couples across 24 countries, addressing social inequalities and projecting future trends.
Projectdetails
Introduction
The gender revolution framework predicts a seemingly linear progression leading to a dramatic convergence in men’s and women’s roles in paid work and at home. Yet, gender convergence appears stalled by conflicting structural and cultural factors across industrialized countries. Existing theoretical perspectives fail to simultaneously predict how the gender revolution shapes couple-level work-family patterns across countries and time for those with lower, middle, and higher socio-economic resources.
Project Overview
WeEqualize will address the intertwined implications of the gender revolution—including changing gender beliefs, rising labor market insecurity, and the increasing retreat from partnerships—in shaping social inequalities in work-family strategies among different-sex couples across 24 countries from the 1960s to the present day.
Objectives
WeEqualize will provide the first comprehensive characterization and quantification of social inequalities in work-family strategies across industrialized countries and over the long run. It aims to:
- Identify a couple-level typology of work-family strategies.
- Examine the prevalence of these strategies by education and across countries.
- Evaluate the role of contextual factors in shaping work-family strategies.
- Assess how historical and contemporary estimates of work-family strategies are shaped by changing demographic trends.
- Project future trends in work-family strategies for the coming decades.
- Collect and leverage new survey-based experimental data across different contexts to disentangle the role of gender beliefs from labor market constraints in shaping what type of work-family strategies couples choose and why.
Methodology
By combining innovative computational methods with multiple nationally representative studies, as well as collecting new survey-experimental data, WeEqualize will challenge and reframe our theoretical understanding of how gender equality progresses within and across families now and in the future.
Financiële details & Tijdlijn
Financiële details
| Subsidiebedrag | € 1.499.146 |
| Totale projectbegroting | € 1.499.146 |
Tijdlijn
| Startdatum | 1-9-2024 |
| Einddatum | 31-8-2029 |
| Subsidiejaar | 2024 |
Partners & Locaties
Projectpartners
- EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTEpenvoerder
- GROUPE DES ECOLES NATIONALES D ECONOMIE ET STATISTIQUE
Land(en)
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