Work Package 3
The New Roles of Men and Women and Implications for Families and Societies

The project Gendered Transition to Parenthood is part of Work Package 3, entitled “The new roles of men and women and implications for families and societies”.
The general objective of this Work Package is to address the complex interplay between new roles of men and women and the diversity of family life courses in contemporary Europe.

Topics of WP 3

The Work Package is concerned with the following issues:
• women‘s new role and implications for family dynamics
• gendered transition to parenthood
• new gender roles in doing families
• coping strategies in family and work reconciliation under conditions of
   uncertainty and precariousness

Partners of WP 3

Beside the University of Vienna, further 12 research partners are part of and collaborate within the Work Package:
• Babeş-Bolyai University
• Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Collegio Carlo Alberto
• Estonian Institute for Population Studies
• German Youth Institute
• Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques
• London School of Economics
• Stockholm University
• University of Lausanne
• University of Leuven
• University of Padova
• Warsaw School of Economics