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Life design facing the fertility gap: promoting gender equity to give women and men the freedom of a mindful life planning

Nowadays, society is characterized by enormous and rapid changes, erratic careers, gender discrimination, injustices, and inequities. Discrimination includes professional and educational segregation, the gender pay gap, stereotypical gender roles, and social expectations. In this context, phenomena...

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Autores principales: Camussi, Elisabetta, Meneghetti, Daria, Rella, Riccardo, Sbarra, Maria Luisa, Calegari, Elena, Sassi, Cinzia, Annovazzi, Chiara
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10264654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37325728
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1176663
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author Camussi, Elisabetta
Meneghetti, Daria
Rella, Riccardo
Sbarra, Maria Luisa
Calegari, Elena
Sassi, Cinzia
Annovazzi, Chiara
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Meneghetti, Daria
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Sbarra, Maria Luisa
Calegari, Elena
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description Nowadays, society is characterized by enormous and rapid changes, erratic careers, gender discrimination, injustices, and inequities. Discrimination includes professional and educational segregation, the gender pay gap, stereotypical gender roles, and social expectations. In this context, phenomena called low fertility and fertility gap are increasing. Indeed, the birth rate necessary to ensure the replacement of the population is not reached, with severe repercussions at a social, environmental, and economic level. This study aimed to investigate 835 women’s perceptions of the desire for motherhood and the associated difficulties. Hierarchical multiple regression and thematic decomposition analyses first highlight a significant difference between the number of children women realistically plan and the ideal number of children they would like. Secondly, the results showed how the parenthood choice is connected to the perception of social and gender inequity. Finally, in a Life Design perspective, preventive actions will be described to support women to get back to the center of life choices, building dignified fair paths and family projects.
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spelling pubmed-102646542023-06-15 Life design facing the fertility gap: promoting gender equity to give women and men the freedom of a mindful life planning Camussi, Elisabetta Meneghetti, Daria Rella, Riccardo Sbarra, Maria Luisa Calegari, Elena Sassi, Cinzia Annovazzi, Chiara Front Psychol Psychology Nowadays, society is characterized by enormous and rapid changes, erratic careers, gender discrimination, injustices, and inequities. Discrimination includes professional and educational segregation, the gender pay gap, stereotypical gender roles, and social expectations. In this context, phenomena called low fertility and fertility gap are increasing. Indeed, the birth rate necessary to ensure the replacement of the population is not reached, with severe repercussions at a social, environmental, and economic level. This study aimed to investigate 835 women’s perceptions of the desire for motherhood and the associated difficulties. Hierarchical multiple regression and thematic decomposition analyses first highlight a significant difference between the number of children women realistically plan and the ideal number of children they would like. Secondly, the results showed how the parenthood choice is connected to the perception of social and gender inequity. Finally, in a Life Design perspective, preventive actions will be described to support women to get back to the center of life choices, building dignified fair paths and family projects. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10264654/ /pubmed/37325728 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1176663 Text en Copyright © 2023 Camussi, Meneghetti, Rella, Sbarra, Calegari, Sassi and Annovazzi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Camussi, Elisabetta
Meneghetti, Daria
Rella, Riccardo
Sbarra, Maria Luisa
Calegari, Elena
Sassi, Cinzia
Annovazzi, Chiara
Life design facing the fertility gap: promoting gender equity to give women and men the freedom of a mindful life planning
title Life design facing the fertility gap: promoting gender equity to give women and men the freedom of a mindful life planning
title_full Life design facing the fertility gap: promoting gender equity to give women and men the freedom of a mindful life planning
title_fullStr Life design facing the fertility gap: promoting gender equity to give women and men the freedom of a mindful life planning
title_full_unstemmed Life design facing the fertility gap: promoting gender equity to give women and men the freedom of a mindful life planning
title_short Life design facing the fertility gap: promoting gender equity to give women and men the freedom of a mindful life planning
title_sort life design facing the fertility gap: promoting gender equity to give women and men the freedom of a mindful life planning
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10264654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37325728
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1176663
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