The reversal of the gender gap in education and its consequences for family life

J Van Bavel, CR Schwartz… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Although men tended to receive more education than women in the past, the gender gap in
education has reversed in recent decades in most Western and many non-Western …

Trends and variation in assortative mating: Causes and consequences

CR Schwartz - Annual Review of Sociology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Assortative mating fundamentally shapes the characteristics of families and the reproduction
of populations. It organizes people into families and determines the characteristics of …

The gender revolution: A framework for understanding changing family and demographic behavior

F Goldscheider, E Bernhardt… - … and development review, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

The end of hypergamy: Global trends and implications

A Esteve, CR Schwartz, J Van Bavel… - Population and …, 2016 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The gender gap in education that has long favored men has reversed for young adults in
almost all high and middle-income countries. In 2010, the proportion of women aged 25-29 …

[BOK][B] The new roles of men and women and implications for families and societies

LS Oláh, IE Kotowska, R Richter - 2018 - library.oapen.org
The major trends in family structures and their shifts across the industrialized world over the
past decades are well known: fertility rates have declined below the level sufficient for the …

The reversal of the gender gap in education and trends in marital dissolution

CR Schwartz, H Han - American sociological review, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The reversal of the gender gap in education has potentially far-reaching consequences for
marriage markets, family formation, and relationship outcomes. One possible consequence …

The reversed gender gap in education and assortative mating in Europe

Y De Hauw, A Grow, J Van Bavel - European Journal of Population, 2017 - Springer
While in the past men received more education than women, the gender gap in education
has turned around: in recent years, more highly educated women than highly educated men …

Top earnings inequality and the gender pay gap: Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom

NM Fortin, B Bell, M Böhm - Labour Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper explores the consequences of the under-representation of women in top jobs for
the overall gender pay gap. Using administrative annual earnings data from Canada …

The reversal of the gender gap in education, motherhood, and women as main earners in Europe

M Klesment, J Van Bavel - European Sociological Review, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Men have historically attained more education than women, but this gender imbalance in
education has reversed in many countries. In recent cohorts, the wife typically has as much …

Assortative mating and the reversal of gender inequality in education in Europe: An agent-based model

A Grow, J Van Bavel - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
While men have always received more education than women in the past, this gender
imbalance in education has turned around in large parts of the world. In many countries …