Rising Rates of Cohabitation and the Odds of Repartnering : Does the Gap between Men and Women Disappear?

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Authors

KREIDL Martin HUBATKOVÁ Barbora

Year of publication 2017
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Journal of Divorce & Remarriage
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Web http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10502556.2017.1343580
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10502556.2017.1343580
Field Sociology, demography
Keywords Cohabitation; divorce; gender gap; remarriage; repartnering
Description Men are more likely to repartner than women. This pattern might reflect gender disparities in barriers to repartnering. When rates of cohabitation increase, the gender disparity might shrink, as cohabitation is a less institutionalized form of coresidential partnership and therefore has lower entry barriers in comparison to marriage. Using event-history models applied to Czech data from the Generations and Gender Survey, we show that the odds of repartnering were indeed higher among men than among women in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. No significant change in the gender effect, however, was found. Similarly, the analysis revealed no change in the effect of gender on the odds of entering cohabitation rather than marriage.
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