Gendered Divisions of Fertility Work: Socioeconomic Predictors of Female versus Male Sterilization

Autor/in	Bertotti, Andrea M.
Titel	Gendered Divisions of Fertility Work: Socioeconomic Predictors of Female versus Male Sterilization
Quelle	In: Journal of Marriage and Family, 75 (2013) 1, S.13-25 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2445
Schlagwörter	Contraception; Socioeconomic Influences; Individual Characteristics; Racial Differences; Females; Educational Attainment; Income; Marriage; Interpersonal Relationship; Interviews; Multivariate Analysis; Michigan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Empfängnisverhütung; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Rassenunterschied; Weibliches Geschlecht; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Einkommen; Ehe; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Multivariate Analyse
Abstract	Domestic labor researchers have examined a multitude of duties disproportionately performed by women, yet the responsibility associated with navigating a couple's fertility--fertility work--has been overlooked. Using data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth ("N" = 1,415), the author examined how racial and socioeconomic factors affect the division of contraceptive fertility work among married and cohabiting women who rely on either their partners' vasectomies or their own sterilizations. Drawing theoretical connections between fertility work and housework, resource- and gender-based perspectives were used to assess whether women's or their partners' characteristics are stronger predictors of sterilization type, and whether women's absolute or relative education level has a greater impact. Findings suggest that White and socioeconomically privileged women are more likely to have vasectomized partners than disadvantaged women. Male partners' characteristics were more closely associated with sterilization type than women's characteristics, lending greater support for the gender-based hypotheses. (Contains 3 tables, 1 figure, and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10