CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 1,209Family Dynamics and RelationshipsGender, Labor, and Family DynamicsWork-Family Balance Challenges

The Gender Revolution: A Framework for Understanding Changing Family and Demographic Behavior

Goldscheider, Frances, Bernhardt, Eva, Lappegård, Trude·2015·Population and Development Review
DOI 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2015.00045.x
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

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 more centrally in the family. We develop a theoretical argument about the emerging consequences of this stage of the gender revolution and review research results that bear on it. The argument compares the determinants and consequences of recent family trends in industrialized societies provided by two narratives: the SDT and the gender revolution in the public and private spheres. Our argument examines differences in theoretical foundations and positive vs. negative implications for the future. We focus primarily on the growing evidence for turnarounds in the relationships between measures of women's human capital and union formation, fertility, and union dissolution, and consider evidence that men's home involvement increases union formation and fertility and decreases union instability. Although the family trends underlying the SDT and the gender revolution narratives are ongoing and a convincing view of the phenomenon has not yet emerged, the wide range of recent research results documenting changing, even reversing relationships suggests that the gender approach is increasingly the more fruitful one.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2015.00045.x

Cites

178 of 178 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Many scholars argue that gendered associations between education and fertility are weakening or reversing, mostly due to changing gender relations in the public and private spheres.

    “Many scholars argue that these gendered associations are weakening or even reversing. This is mostly attributed to changing gender relations in the public and private spheres (McDonald 2000; Esping-Andersen and Billari 2015; Goldscheider et al. 2015; Anderson and Kohler 2015).”

    From Education, Gender, and Cohort Fertility in the Nordic Countries (2019) · cites this paper as Goldscheider et al. 2015

  • Childcare and parental leave policies may both increase fertility by reducing opportunity costs and increase maternal labor supply.

    “As such, these policies may both increase fertility by reducing opportunity costs, and increase maternal labor supply (Gauthier 2007; Goldscheider et al. 2015).”

    From Can Policies Stall the Fertility Fall? A Systematic Review of the (Quasi‐) Experimental Literature (2021) · cites this paper as Goldscheider et al. 2015

  • South Korea, together with several other East Asian countries, remains in the first stage of the gender revolution framework proposed by Goldscheider, Bernhardt, and Lappegård (2015).

    “It has been argued that South Korea, together with several other East Asian countries, remains in the first stage of the gender revolution framework proposed by Goldscheider, Bernhardt, and Lappegård (2015) (Kan and Hertog 2017).”

    From Division of domestic labour and lowest-low fertility in South Korea (2017) · cites this paper as Goldscheider, Bernhardt, and Lappegård (2015)

  • Major perspectives in family demography, notably the Gender Revolution and Multiple Equilibrium framework, suggest a fertility rebound.

    “major perspectives in family demography – and most notably the Gender Revolution (Goldscheider, Bernhardt, and Lappegård 2015 )/Multiple Equilibrium framework (Esping-Andersen and Billari 2015 ) – suggest, rather, a fertility rebound.”

    From A reflection on economic uncertainty and fertility in Europe: The Narrative Framework (2020) · cites this paper as Goldscheider, Bernhardt, and Lappegård 2015

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Related

Authors
Goldscheider, F., Bernhardt, E., & Lappegård, T.
Affiliations
  • Brown University (US)
  • Professor Emerita, Stockholm University Sweden
  • Statistics Norway (NO)
ORCID
Lappegård, Trude
Venue
Population and Development Review
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2015-06
Volume
41
Issue
2
Pages
207-239
ISSN
  • 0098-7921 (ISSN-L)
  • 1728-4457
DOI
10.1111/j.1728-4457.2015.00045.x
OpenAlex
W1721041500
Cited by
1,209
References
178
Citations by year
2026: 98 · 2025: 131 · 2024: 235 · 2023: 136 · 2022: 121 · 2021: 127 · 2020: 115 · 2019: 76 · 2018: 70 · 2017: 57 · 2016: 34 · 2015: 9
FWCI
143.85
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor, 15 d)
Locations
  • Population and Development Review (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Work-Family Balance Challenges
Keywords
gender revolution, second demographic transition, family change, women's human capital, union formation, fertility, union dissolution, gender roles, industrial society, family policy

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review