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Drawing on the idea that gender shapes living conditions, this chapter sheds light on family and gender relations in Europe in a cross-country perspective. Differences and similarities between women and men are mapped and characterised according to different life stages: youth, rush hour of life, and late working life stage. These portraits take into account several dimensions: family, structural living conditions, and unpaid and paid work. Income determinants are identified, and inequalities between men and women are also addressed through the lenses of social classes. The analysis is based on cross-national data from several databases: European Social Survey (ESS), and International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS), Structure of Earnings Survey (SES), and the Labour Force Survey.
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Coelho, B., Maciel, D., Torres, A. (2021). Gender, Social Class, and Family Relations in Different Life Stages in Europe. In: Castrén, AM., et al. The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73306-3_3
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