Marital Quality, Health, and Aging: Gender Equity?

Gender equity and reproductive health.

Poverty, gender and health equity

Bulletin of the World Health Organization | October 2004, 82 (10) Abstract Despite the magnitude of the problem of health inequity within and between countries, little systematic research has been done on the social causes of ill-health. Health researchers have overwhelmingly focused on biomedical research at the level of individuals. Investigations into the health of groups and the determinant...

Marital status, gender, and subjective quality of life in Korea.

This study examined the effects of marital status and gender on the subjective quality of life in Korea. Respondents included 483 males (125 single; 358 married) and 472 females (78 single; 394 married). Five separate scales were used to measure the quality of life: a single-item general happiness scale; two measures provided by negative-affect scales; a modified version of the Life-in- G...

Couples’ Work/Retirement Transitions, Gender, and Marital Quality*

55 Retirement typically has been studied as an individual, principally male status passage, although its effects ripple across family relationships (Szinovacz 1989; Szinovacz and Ekerdt 1995).Today, however, almost half the contemporary workforce is female and the majority of workers are now married to other workers. These trends are strongly affecting both scholarly and cultural conceptualizat...

Revisiting the relationships among gender, marital status, and mental health.

Three decades ago, Grove introduced his sex-role theory of mental illness, which attributes women's higher rates of psychological distress to their roles in society. Central to his hypothesis is that marriage is emotionally advantageous for men and disadvantageous for women. This article revisits this topic with data from the National Survey of Families and Households. The analyses indicate tha...