398 - Presidential Panel. Do Heterosexual Couples Avoid Female Superiority and Eroticize Traditionality?

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

The gender revolution has arguably degendered education and careers more than family roles and sexuality. Three panelists present differing views on whether, among heterosexuals, more egalitarian or more traditional gender arrangements encourage couples to get married, stay together, and have more frequent sex. What is the evidence that partners do gender by avoiding marriages in which women earn more, and divorcing when women’s relative status is too high? How do egalitarian or traditional roles affect how often married couples have sex? Is all this changing as women’s superior educational attainment leads more and more couples to feature a wife who is better educated than her husband?

Sub Unit

• Plenary and Presidential Panels

Session Organizer

• Paula England, New York University

Presider

• Maria Charles, University of California-Santa Barbara

Panelists

• Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago

• Sabino Kornrich, Emory University

• Christine Renee Schwartz, University of Wisconsin-Madison