The diversity of pathways to childlessness in the Czech Republic: The union histories of childless men and women
Identifikátory výsledku
Kód výsledku v 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>
Výsledek na webu
<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>
Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
The diversity of pathways to childlessness in the Czech Republic: The union histories of childless men and women
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
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.
Název v anglickém jazyce
The diversity of pathways to childlessness in the Czech Republic: The union histories of childless men and women
Popis výsledku anglicky
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.
Klasifikace
Druh
J<sub>imp</sub> - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science
CEP obor
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OECD FORD obor
50401 - Sociology
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
<a href="/cs/project/GA17-04465S" target="_blank" >GA17-04465S: Bezdětnost a jednodětné rodiny: příspěvek k vysvětlení nízké plodnosti v České republice</a><br>
Návaznosti
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2020
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název periodika
Advances in Life Course Research
ISSN
1040-2608
e-ISSN
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Svazek periodika
46
Číslo periodika v rámci svazku
December
Stát vydavatele periodika
US - Spojené státy americké
Počet stran výsledku
14
Strana od-do
1-14
Kód UT WoS článku
000595903300001
EID výsledku v databázi Scopus
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