The diversity of pathways to childlessness in the Czech Republic: The union histories of childless men and women
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378025%3A_____%2F20%3A00532145" target="_blank" >RIV/68378025:_____/20:00532145 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040260820300423" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040260820300423</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2020.100363" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.alcr.2020.100363</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The diversity of pathways to childlessness in the Czech Republic: The union histories of childless men and women
Original language description
Despite the fact that not having a partner is a strong predictor for remaining childless, few studies have explored the heterogeneity of partnership trajectories among childless persons. This article fills the gap in knowledge about the pathways to childlessness in Central Europe by exploring the within-group diversity of partnership trajectories among childless persons between the ages of 18 and 40 under state socialism and during the post-1989 transformation in the Czech Republic. Based on data from the Gender and Generations Survey, we identify different types of union history among childless persons using sequence analysis and optimal matching-based clustering. Moreover, we directly assess variations in partnership trajectories across gender, education, and birth cohorts by analysing sequence discrepancy and the complexity index. In both the state-socialist and post-socialist contexts the most prevalent trajectory types were ‘never partnered’ and ‘long-term partnerships’, with only a small proportion of unstable partnership trajectories. Childless women experience more diverse and complex trajectories than childless men and their partnership trajectories vary more pronouncedly across educational groups than those of men. In contrast, cohort differences are more pronounced among childless men. We discuss the findings against the backdrop of the transition from a state-socialist to a post-socialist welfare state. The findings thus contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the social and historical embeddedness of pathways to childlessness and show how the links between gender, education, and family life-courses are context-specific.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-04465S" target="_blank" >GA17-04465S: Childlessness and one-child families: explaining the low fertility rate in the Czech Republic</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Advances in Life Course Research
ISSN
1040-2608
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
46
Issue of the periodical within the volume
December
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
1-14
UT code for WoS article
000595903300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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