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Gender Disparities In Caretaking During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Danielle Rhubart
Gender Disparities In Caretaking During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Danielle Rhubart
Population Health Research Brief Series
Women have consistently been responsible for more child and elder care than men in the U.S. This disparity continues during COVID-19 and is affecting women’s work.
Same-Sex Sexuality And The Duration Of First Different-Sex Marriages, Aaron Hoy, Andrew London
Same-Sex Sexuality And The Duration Of First Different-Sex Marriages, Aaron Hoy, Andrew London
Sociology - All Scholarship
Recent research has focused on the once-married and associations between various aspects of same-sex sexuality (i.e., desire/attraction, behavior and identity) and divorce from a different-sex spouse. In this paper, we theorize that same-sex sexuality could be associated with either shorter or longer marital duration, and we use data from the 2011-2013 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to examine the associations between three aspects of same-sex sexuality and marital duration among those who married and divorced once (N=617). Among the once-married/divorced, same-sex sexuality substantially reduces marital duration by approximately 18-24 months, on average, net of other variables. Supplemental analyses indicate …