Womens Employment And Childbearing In Postindustrialized Societies The Fertility Paradox Daniel Dinale by Daniel Dinale 9783031460975, 3031460979 instant download after payment.

This book discusses the relationship between women's labour force participation and fertility rates in developed nations. It shows a positive relationship between women's workforce participation and childbirth. It theorises a new approach to explaining this 'fertility paradox' that looks at institutional factors influencing gender equality in developed nations. The book analyses a range of institutional variables that impact the positive relationship between female employment and fertility rates, including labour market institutions, social policies and welfare state institutions (family policies, active labour market programs and public sector employment) as well as household gender dynamics. Written for both academics and policy-makers, this book has theoretical relevance for research on gender and work, and also for policies aimed at increasing women's employment and redressing low fertility, which are important issues in many developed nations.

Chapter 1: The Fertility Paradox: More Working Women, More Babies

1.1 The Relationship Between Production and Reproduction in Historical Context

1.2 The Bygone Era of Fertility: More Working Women, Fewer Babies

1.3 A New Era in Fertility: More Working Women, More Babies

Why Is This the Case?

1.4 Solving the Fertility Paradox: An Employment Relations Perspective

1.5 Why Is the Fertility Paradox Important?

1.6 Plan of the Book

The Need for A Retheorisation: Inadequacy of Traditional Explanations of Demographic Change

Retheorising the Relationship Between Production and Reproduction: Multi-institutional Gender Equality as a Way Forward

Flexible Service-Oriented Labour Markets

Gender Egalitarian Social Policy and Welfare State Institutions

Equitable Division of Household Labour

The Future of Fertility

Chapter 2: Traditional Explanations for the Fertility Paradox

2.1 The Three Theories of Transition: Traditional Explanations of the Fertility Paradox

Gary Becker´s New Home Economics

Preference Theories

Second Demographic

…