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In the context of the article, it seems that this wording would suggest > "Both men and women without full time jobs are more likely to divorce." but this is
by hwbehrens 4y ago
In the context of the article, it seems that this wording would suggest
> "Both men and women without full time jobs are more likely to divorce."
but this is not supported by any evidence that I could find. Indeed, it seems that unemployed (non-employed?) women are actually less likely to divorce, and that divorce rates see a linear, positive correlation with the hours worked by the female partner in male-female marriages.
Of course this is a correlative and not a causative factor, and likely is confounded by e.g. social norms and economic factors, so I don't think it says much. More recent results find that divorce (inversely) correlates more strongly with economic success, which also correlates with single-income households.
In any case, the available data suggests that a more nuanced opinion than "Gender doesn't matter for anything" would provide a better explanation.
N.b., the data I found was either from countries with a historical patriarchal bias (e.g. Iran, Türkiye) or rather old (before 1990) so it's possible/probable that these trends have shifted over time. If so, however, they are not under active research as far as I can tell. This is not my area of expertise so I might have missed some critical keywords in my search.
https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/22490/1007695.pdf#page=49 https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/2249...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jomf.12629 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jomf.12629
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/019251385006003004 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/019251385006003...
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/1008691 https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/1008691
https://jwsps.alzahra.ac.ir/article_4434.html https://jwsps.alzahra.ac.ir/article_4434.html