Research Group

Gender Inequalities and Fertility

Project

Social and Gendered Inequalities in Reproduction and Care

Conducted by Nicole Hiekel; Nathan Robbins

This project examines how family transitions generate inequalities in care, mental health, and reproductive risk. By analyzing parenthood, partnership dynamics, and reproductive outcomes, it shows how caregiving burdens and reproductive vulnerability contribute to gender and socioeconomic disparities across family trajectories. Detailed Description

Publications

Hiekel, N.; Kühn, M.:

Lessons from the pandemic: gender inequality in childcare and the emergence of a gender mental health gap among parents in Germany

Demographic Research 51:3, 49–80. (2024)

Robbins, N.:

Is “being there” enough? Father’s instrumental support and union dissolution among disadvantaged families

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-030. (2024)

Robbins, N.:

Time and money: parental leave generosity and first-time parents’ uptake of leave across 23 European countries

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-031. (2024)

Hiekel, N.; Kühn, M.:

Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of partnership and parenthood status for growing disparities between types of families

Journal of Health and Social Behavior 63:4, 594–609. (2022)

Back to Project List

Research