Latest Demographic Changes in Latin America and the Caribbean: Pace, Development, and Inequalities
Seminar
Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced rapid demographic change over the past century, marked by sustained fertility decline, improvements in life expectancy, and shifting migration patterns. Although these processes are often described as part of a compressed demographic transition, they…
Rethinking Fertility Ideals: Gender, Mental Health, and Psychological Configurations Across Contexts
Seminar
In many low-fertility societies, fertility debates increasingly centre on gender equality, yet research has produced inconsistent findings on how gender relates to fertility ideals and intentions. Mental health has also become a growing concern and is itself shaped by gender, but it has rarely been…
From ‘Moral Decay’ to ‘Cost of Living Crisis’: 125 Years of Australian Political Discourse on Fertility
Seminar
In common with other high-income countries, a key feature of Australia’s population trends since Federation has been a shift towards smaller families. The fertility rate has fallen from over 3.5 children per woman in 1901 to just under 1.5 in 2024, although this decline has not been linear. Periods…
Fertility, mortality, life satisfaction: Research results waiting for follow-up
Seminar
This talk presents a taster of some findings that Marion Burkimsher has presented at conferences but not taken further. Topics include:Comparing expectations with the reality of childbearing; What the fertility curve can tell us about the processes affecting the TFR; Trends in birth intervals and…
The 3 missteps we make when trying to achieve gender equality
Seminar
In this talk, Michelle will present research looking at three common missteps that are made when designing and implementing gender equality initiatives: (1) when we don’t go beyond describing the numbers; (2) when we try to ‘fix’ women rather than fix systems; and (3) when we are overly…
Gender Inequities in the Home and Lower Sexual Desire among Women Partnered with Men
Seminar
Low desire is one of the most common sexual problems, or ‘dysfunctions’ and it is most common in women. In this talk, Emily Harris first addresses common misconceptions about sexual desire before presenting findings from two studies of desire among women partnered with men, sampled cross-nationally…
Mortality Gaps & Cause Composition: A Methodological View
Seminar
How have leading causes of death shifted by age and over calendar time, and what do the gaps between major causes reveal about population health? This talk unifies two distributional perspectives within an age–period setting: First, Associate Professor Andrea Nigri models differences in death…