Union Formation, Assortative Mating, and Inequality

Friday, 11 July 2025: 13:00-14:45
Location: SJES007 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
RC28 Social Stratification (host committee)

Language: English

The second demographic transition has transformed families around the world. Depending on where we live, more men and women delay or forgo marriage while cohabitation has become commonplace. This has made marriage, an important social institution, more selective of those with education and economic resources. Educational and social class assortative mating has become increasingly positive over time. All these changes have led to greater inequality between haves and have-nots. This session will provide a platform to share work on how gender revolution or stalled gender revolution relate to gender division of household labor, women’s contribution to paid labor, and men’s contribution to household and how these transformations influence work and family differently by gender, children’s wellbeing, and structural inequalities across societies.
Session Organizer:
Zhenchao QIAN, Brown University, USA
Chair:
Zhenchao QIAN, Brown University, USA
Oral Presentations
I Am Pro Divorce but Wouldn’t Marry a Divorced Person: Educational Differences in Willingness to Mary a Divorce Person in South Korea
Sangsoo LEE, Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea; Hyunjoon PARK, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Marital Selectivity, Gender Roles and Housework Division in Comparative Perspective: Does National Context Matter?
Felicia PICANCO, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Maira COVRE-SUSSAI, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil; Isadora VIANNA SENTO SE, Brazil; Clara ARAUJO, State University of Rio de JAneiro, Brazil
A New Explanation for the Shifting Spousal Earnings Correlation in the United States
Yifan SHEN, HKUST, Hong Kong
Who Remains Single? Educational Gradients in Long-Term Singlehood Among Ethnic Majority and Minority Members in the Netherlands
Kasimir DEDERICHS, United Kingdom; Evelina AKIMOVA, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Nan Dirk DE GRAAF, United Kingdom
Assortative Mating across Multiple Status Dimensions
Nino CRICCO, Harvard University, USA; Yinan WANG, Harvard University, USA
Educational Assortative Mating: Exploring Gendered Patterns and Role of Mode of Entry Among Legal Immigrants in the United States
Veena KULKARNI, Arkansas State University, USA
Intergenerational Social Mobility and Marriage Formation in South Korea: How Does Relative and Absolute Social Mobility Matter?
Dohoon LEE, Seoul National University, South Korea
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