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Gender-Roles Attitudes and Hypogamous Unions’ Formation
Alessandra Trimarchi

##manager.scheduler.building##: Velodromo - Bocconi University
##manager.scheduler.room##: N07
Date: 2019-01-26 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Last modified: 2018-12-26

Abstract


Typically, individuals tend to form unions where the man is older than the woman, and where the man is at least as educated as the woman. These patterns are considered the outcome of societal gender-roles based on the male-breadwinner model. It is not yet clear whether individuals prefer to follow those union patterns, given the changing composition of mating markets: in the last decades highly educated women outnumbered highly educated men. By means of Generations and Gender Surveys of six countries and multinomial logistic regressions, we investigate the association between single men and women’s gender-roles attitudes (measured in wave 1) and union formation patterns (measured in wave 2). Results suggest that egalitarian men are more likely to form hypogamous unions, i.e. the woman more educated than the man, rather than remaining single. Egalitarian women, instead, are less likely than other women to be in hypogamous unions rather than remaining single.