Gender and Re-partnering after Divorce in Four Central European and Baltic Countries

• Authors: Aušra Maslauskaitė , Marė Baublytė
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article analyses the demographic and social determinants of repartnering after divorce in four Baltic and Central European transition countries (Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, and Hungary), which, despite their common transition paths after the 1990s, developed distinct political economies and have different gender and family cultures. The article explores how the re-partnering chances of divorced women and men are shaped by the social divisions of gender, parenthood, age, and education within various transition- society contexts. In general, the findings support the argument about the relevance and mediating role of the societal context in the process of re-partnering. Although we found an overall gender disadvantage in re-partnering across all countries, in more traditional contexts, parenthood undermines the chances of re-partnering for women but not for men. The negative effect of older age for re-partnering after divorce is almost universal for men, but is context-sensitive for women. Education does not affect women’s chances of re-partnering, but it does play a significant role in the attractiveness of men in more traditional settings. The analysis is based on the partnership and parenthood histories recorded in the Generations and Gender Survey.

Keywords

EN

re-partnering; divorce; gender culture; Central European countries; Baltic countries

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 51
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1023-1047

Contributors

author

Aušra Maslauskaitė

author

Marė Baublytė

Identifiers

DOI

10.13060/00380288.2015.51.6.227