Societal foundations for explaining low fertility: Gender equity

McDonald, Peter

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Societal foundations for explaining low fertility: Gender equity

Date

2013

Authors

McDonald, Peter

Publisher

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Abstract

BACKGROUND Gender equity theory in relation to fertility argues that very low fertility is the result of incoherence in the levels of gender equity in individually oriented social institutions and family-oriented social institutions. The salience of gende