This article uses a feminist framework to explore embodied aging by analyzing indepth formal interviews with 57 men and women in their 60s, 70s and 80s. Emphasizing intersectionality, I focus on the interpretations and strategies these men and women use to make sense of their aging bodies. Their aging corporeal experiences allow me to examine…

A public opinion survey of 1,750 U.S. adults provided data on men's and women's criticism of gender inequality at home and work. Controlling for age (negatively related to home criticism), education (positively related to home and work criticism), and several social class factors, home criticism was negatively related to parenthood for men and to…

Analysis of data from the 1988 International Social Science Survey examined attitudes toward the centrality of children in six European countries. Italians and Austrians had the most favorable attitudes toward children, Dutch respondents the least. Pronatalism was positively related to being ever-married with children, and negatively related to…