Download or read book Gender, Time-use, and Fertility Recovery in Industrialized Countries written by Javier Garcia-Manglano and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper explores whether gendered patterns of time use and the division of labour are factors behind fertility trends in the western world. After decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit replacement fertility rates. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in which family units - and women within families - remain primarily responsible for familial care obligations, and where the role of the State in the provision of care services is marginal. This paper uses time diary data to investigate time use, gender, and fertility in two groups of countries: those where fertility did not decline as much or recovered - United States, Denmark, Finland and Norway - and those in which fertility decreased substantially over this period and remained at very low levels - Italy, Spain, Germany and Japan.