McDonald, Peter2015-12-101435-9871http://hdl.handle.net/1885/62353BACKGROUND 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 gendeAuthor/s retain copyrightSocietal foundations for explaining low fertility: Gender equity201310.4054/DemRes.2013.28.342015-12-10