Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6788-3907
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Journal of Marriage and Family
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.
Pages
13-25
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.01031.x
Volume
75
Issue
1
Publication Date
1-2013
Keywords
division of labor, fertility work, gender, housework, marriage sterilization
Disciplines
Family, Life Course, and Society | Medicine and Health | Sociology
ISSN
1741-3737
Recommended Citation
Bertotti, Andrea, "Gendered Divisions of Fertility Work: Socioeconomic Predictors of Female versus Male Sterilization" (2013). Sociology & Criminology Faculty Research. 3.
https://repository.gonzaga.edu/soccrimschol/3
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This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Bertotti, A.M. (2013), Gendered Divisions of Fertility Work: Socioeconomic Predictors of Female Versus Male Sterilization. Journal of Marriage and Family, 75: 13-25, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.01031.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.