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Gender, education, and family life courses in East and West Germany: Insights from new sequence analysis techniques
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Abstract How do men and women's family life courses differ? Are gender differences in family life courses greater at higher or lower educational levels? And how does the intersection of gender, education and family life courses vary across different macro-structural contexts? This paper addresses these quest... mehr
How do men and women's family life courses differ? Are gender differences in family life courses greater at higher or lower educational levels? And how does the intersection of gender, education and family life courses vary across different macro-structural contexts? This paper addresses these questions comparing East and West Germany during the German division (1961-1990). We thereby compare a strong male breadwinner model in a social market economy in West Germany and a universal breadwinner model in a state socialist system in the East. The analysis uses data from the German National Education Panel (NEPS) and employs two new sequence analysis tools: sequence discrepancy analysis and the implicative statistic for analyzing sequences of typical states. These tools enable us to scrutinize the degree, content, and timing of differences in family trajectories between men and women of different educational levels in the two sub-societies. In line with our expectations, family life courses were more de-standardized in the West compared to the East, and this occurred to the same extent for men and women in both contexts. While we find moderate gender differences in family life courses across all educational groups in the strong male breadwinner context in West Germany, for East Germany gender differences were significant among the medium and lower educated, but not among the highly educated. These findings underline the fact that the intersection of gender and education for family life courses is highly context-specific. They further suggest that different patterns of assortative mating play a key role for gender differences in family life courses. We demonstrate the added value of sequence discrepancy analysis and the implicative statistic to illuminate differences in longitudinal life courses between men and women or other social groups.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bundesrepublik Deutschland; DDR; Bildungsverlauf; Familie; geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren; Bildungsniveau; Ost-West-Vergleich
Klassifikation
Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
East/West Germany; family life course; gender; implicative statistic for sequences of typical states analysis; sequence discrepancy analysis; National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), Starting Cohort Six
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2016
Seitenangabe
S. 66-79
Zeitschriftentitel
Advances in Life Course Research, 29 (2016)
Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/216743
ISSN
1040-2608
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0