Gender and the Reallocation of Time Later in Life

Penn State announces the 4th annual De Jong Lecture in Social Demography to be held November 3, 2009. *Suzanne M. Bianchi*, Professor of Sociology and Dorothy Meier Chair in Social Equity, UCLA, will present “Gender and the Reallocation of Time Later in Life.”

Given the dominant trend in Western societies toward increased female labor force participation, there has understandably been a great deal of exploration of women’s time allocation and gender equality in market and nonmarket work during the childrearing years. Much less well conceptualized or studied empirically is what happens to women’s (and men’s) time and to the gender division of labor later in life, as children exit the parental home and women (and men) approach retirement. The presentation will discuss illustrative findings from a number of datasets that provide insights into women’s (and men’s) time allocation at a point in the life course when women’s and men’s work and family demands may again be more similar than during the childrearing years. Discussants will be *Frances Goldscheider,* College Park Professor of Family Science at the University of Maryland, and *Valarie King,* Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Human Development & Family Studies at Penn State. *The conference is free.* Visit http://www.pop.psu.edu/events/dejonglecture/ for details and registration.