Revealing Sources of Gendered Parenthood: A multi-method comparative study of the transition to parenthood in same-sex and different-sex couples

Project Information

GENPARENT

Grant agreement ID: 771770

DOI

10.3030/771770

Project closed

EC signature date 8 May 2018

Start date 1 August 2018

End date 31 July 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 999 910,00

EU contribution

€ 1 999 910,00

Coordinated by

STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET
Sweden

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Splitting the penalty by taking turns? Same‐sex mothers' earnings losses in Norway

Author(s): Ylva Moberg, Maaike van der Vleuten
Published in: Journal of Marriage and Family, 2025, ISSN 0022-2445
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jomf.13081

Money, Birth, Gender: Explaining Unequal Earnings Trajectories following Parenthood

Author(s): Weverthon Machado, Eva Jaspers
Published in: Sociological Science, Issue 10, 2023, Page(s) 429-453, ISSN 2330-6696
Publisher: Sociological Science
DOI: 10.15195/v10.a14

Who Gives Birth (First) in Female Same‐Sex Couples in Sweden?

Author(s): Katarina Boye, Marie Evertsson
Published in: Journal of Marriage and Family, 2020, ISSN 0022-2445
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12727

Division of Care and Leave Arrangements in Gay Father Families in Sweden

Author(s): Marie Evertsson; Anna Malmquist
Published in: Sexuality Research and Social Policy, Issue 20, 2022, Page(s) 242-256, ISSN 1868-9884
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s13178-022-00732-9

Joint Utility or Sub-optimal Outcomes? Household Income Development of Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples Transitioning to Parenthood in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden

Author(s): Maaike van der Vleuten, Marie Evertsson, Ylva Moberg
Published in: Journal of Family Issues, Issue 45, 2024, Page(s) 2049-2076, ISSN 0192-513X
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0192513x231194305

Taking turns: lesbian couples’ decision of (first) birth mother in Sweden

Author(s): Madeleine Eriksson Kirsch; Marie Evertsson
Published in: Journal of Family Studies, Issue Advance access, 2023, ISSN 1322-9400
Publisher: La Trobe University
DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2022.2098806

Who carries the baby? How lesbian couples in the Netherlands choose birth motherhood

Author(s): Allison Geerts; Marie Evertsson
Published in: Family Relations, Issue 72(1), 2023, Page(s) 176-194, ISSN 0197-6664
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/fare.12726

Why do gendered divisions of labour persist? Parental leave take-up among adoptive and biological parents

Author(s): Ylva Moberg; Maaike van der Vleuten
Published in: European Sociological Review, Issue Advance access, 2023, ISSN 0266-7215
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcac058

Making a Family: Kinning and Conception in Lesbian Families

Author(s): Allison Geerts
Published in: Journal of Homosexuality, 2025, Page(s) 1-22, ISSN 0091-8369
Publisher: Haworth Press Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2025.2469579

Same-Sex Couples’ Division of Labor from a Cross-National Perspective

Author(s): Maaike van der Vleuten, Eva Jaspers, Tanja van der Lippe
Published in: Journal of GLBT Family Studies, Issue 17/2, 2021, Page(s) 150-167, ISSN 1550-428X
Publisher: Haworth Press Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/1550428x.2020.1862012

Doing Genders: Partner’s Gender and Labor Market Behavior

Author(s): Eva Jaspers, Deni Mazrekaj, Weverthon Machado
Published in: American Sociological Review, Issue 89, 2024, Page(s) 518-541, ISSN 0003-1224
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00031224241252079

Parents' hourly wages in female same-sex and different-sex couples: The role of partner's gender and employers

Author(s): Katharina Stückradt, Eva Jaspers, Ruben Van Gaalen, Weverthon Machado
Published in: Journal of Family Research, Issue 36, 2024, Page(s) 66-84, ISSN 2699-2337
Publisher: Journal of Family Research
DOI: 10.20377/jfr-960

Book chapters (4)

Family sociological theories questioned. Same-sex parent families sharing work and care

Author(s): Marie Evertsson, Madeleine Eriksson Kirsch, Allison Geerts
Published in: Research Handbook on the Sociology of the Family, Eds. Schneider, N. S. and M. Kreyenfeld, 2021, Page(s) 373-385, ISBN 9781788975537
Publisher: Edward Elgar
DOI: 10.4337/9781788975544

Social Stratification by Gender and Parenthood

Author(s): Marie Evertsson, Charlotta Magnusson, Maaike van der Vleuten
Published in: The Oxford Handbook of Social Stratification, 2024, ISBN 9780197539484
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197539484.013.35

Parentalization in same-sex couples: Family formation and leave rights in five northern European countries

Author(s): Marie Evertsson, Eva Jasper, Ylva Moberg
Published in: The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy, 2020, Page(s) 397-428, ISBN 978-3-030-54618-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Gender inequality, households and work

Author(s): Eva Jaspers, Tanja van der Lippe, Marie Evertsson
Published in: Handbook of Sociological Science. Contributions to Rigorous Sociology, Eds. Gërxhani, K., de Graf, N. D. and Raub, W, 2022, Page(s) 176-195, ISBN 9781789909425
Publisher: Edward Elgar
DOI: 10.4337/9781789909432

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

Cash‐for‐Care and the Cost of Parenthood: Evidence From Same‐Sex and Adoptive Parents

Author(s): Maaike van der Vleuten, Ylva Moberg
Published in: Journal of Marriage and Family, 2025, ISSN 0022-2445
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jomf.70010

Zweeds ouderschapsverlof blijft ongelijk verdeeld

Author(s): Maaike van der Vleuten, Ylva Moberg
Published in: Demos, Issue 40(2), 2024, Page(s) 1-4, ISSN 0169-1473
Publisher: Netherland's Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute

Other (1)

Revealing Sources of Gendered Parenthood: A multi-method comparative study of the transition to parenthood in same-sex and different-sex couples. (This is a summary article describing the GENPARENT project)

Author(s): Marie Evertsson, Ylva Moberg, Maaike van der Vleuten, Eva Jaspers, Weverthon Machado, Madeleine Eriksson Kirsch, Allison Geerts
Published in: CORDIS - EU research results, 2024
Publisher: CORDIS - EU research results
DOI: 10.3030/771770

Thesis and dissertations (2)

Promising Sameness? Lesbian Couples in Sweden at the Transition to Motherhood.

Author(s): Madeleine Eriksson Kirsch
Published in: Doctoral thesis in Sociology at Stockholm University, Issue Swedish Institute for Social Research Dissertation Series No. 117, 2025, ISBN 978-91-8107-212-9
Publisher: Stockholm University

Building the Family You Want. Lesbian Couples and Roads to Parenthood.

Author(s): Allison Geerts
Published in: Doctoral Thesis in Sociology at Stockholm University, Issue Swedish Institute for Social Research Dissertation Series No. 119, 2025, ISBN 978-91-8107-270-9
Publisher: Stockholm University