Dual-earner couples

KM Shockley, W Shen, H Dodd - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
In Western societies, most married working employees are now part of a dual-earner couple,
meaning both people are engaged in the paid workforce to some extent. Such arrangements …

Joint utility or sub-optimal outcomes? Household income development of same-sex and different-sex couples transitioning to parenthood in Denmark, Finland, Norway …

M Van der Vleuten, M Evertsson… - Journal of Family …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Unequal divisions of paid work and care among new parents contribute to increasing
inequalities. One explanation for this is joint utility maximization and the benefits of partners …

Doing Gender: Partners' Gender and Labor Market Behavior

E Jaspers, D Mazrekaj… - American Sociological …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Partnered men and women show consistently gendered patterns of labor market behavior.
We test whether not only a person's own gender, but also their partner's gender shapes …

“You have those adult responsibilities, but you're still getting your feet on the ground”: The lived experience of established adulthood

CM Mehta, K LaRiviere - Journal of Adult Development, 2023 - Springer
Abstract In the United States, established adulthood (ages 30–45) often represents the most
intense and demanding years of adult life. During this time, most individuals settle into adult …

Family sociological theories questioned: Same-sex parent families sharing work and care

M Evertsson, ME Kirsch, A Geerts - … on the Sociology of the Family, 2021 - elgaronline.com
The rapid progress in the legal recognition of same-sex couples that has occurred in recent
decades has contributed to an increase in the number of children brought up in these …

Gender inequality, households, and work

E Jaspers, T Van der Lippe… - Handbook of Sociological …, 2022 - elgaronline.com
The division of labor between household partners is a core topic in family sociology.
Although rising divorce rates, closing gender gaps in education, family policies for fathers …

The father's and the mother's intrinsic work motivation and their work‐to‐family conflict perceived by the adolescent: Dyadic and triadic analyses

A Li, ZE Zhou, PT Shao, Q Lin - Journal of Organizational …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Integrating work–family conflict theory with family systems theory, we examine a potential
dark side of parents' intrinsic work motivation by linking it to their work‐to‐family conflict …

Division of Care and Leave Arrangements in Gay Father Families in Sweden

M Evertsson, A Malmquist - Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2023 - Springer
Introduction This study analyses the division of parental leave and the income development
in gay father families through surrogacy in Sweden, seen as one of the most family-friendly …

[HTML][HTML] Earnings Trajectories of Individuals in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples: Evidence from Administrative Data

N Denier, CW Yang, X St-Denis, S Waite - Research in Social Stratification …, 2024 - Elsevier
We unite two interrelated bodies of work–a growing literature on sexual orientation earnings
gaps and a rich tradition of research on intragenerational career trajectories–to examine …

Pink tax and other tropes

BJ Crawford - Yale JL & Feminism, 2023 - HeinOnline
Law reform advocates should be strategic in deploying tax tropes. This Article examines five
common tax phrases-the" nanny tax,"" death tax,"" soda tax,"" Black tax," and" pink tax"-and …