Add to ORKGThis study examines the various pressures faced by voluntarily childless married women in Singapore by drawing on qualitative semi-structured interviews with 10 married women in Singapore who have chosen to remain childless. Data analysis illustrates that these women face pressures in the form of persuasion whereby they were frequently questioned about their childless status and impelled to alter their decision. They also experienced pressure in the form of negative sanctions through: (1) the ascription of negative evaluations upon them; (2) social exclusion and (3) devaluation of their achievements. These pressures were imposed upon them by their family, friends, colleagues, healthcare professionals and religion. The findings reveal that t...
In Singapore, declining birth rates are challenging dominant pronatalist discourses. Diverging life ...
This thesis explores the experiences of women who are childless by choice in Ireland, to gain a grea...
In Singapore, it is observed that married women tend to drop out of the labour force in order to com...
Parenthood is universally extolled to be a desirable and normative social role. However, the prolife...
Despite having progressed socioeconomically, empowered women in Singapore are still expected to subs...
Why would women in a post-modern society like Singapore continue to desire for children in the face ...
The problems of delayed marriages and low birth rates have consistently plagued Singapore. The media...
The issue of low fertility rates has always been a persisting concern in Singapore and despite the s...
With an increasing number of graduate mothers in Singapore, greater emphasis is placed on the dual r...
As Singapore’s GDP per capita rose from that of a third world country to first, it’s total fertility...
It can be noted from the literature, as well as from the results of foreign research and my own rese...
The trend of delayed marriage and rising singlehood among well-educated women are often associated w...
In recent talks (2011) to the Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Singapore ci...
Singapore’s economic development has been progressing rapidly over the past few decades. The level ...
In Singapore, the concept of family as one made up of a legally married couple with the husband as '...
In Singapore, declining birth rates are challenging dominant pronatalist discourses. Diverging life ...
This thesis explores the experiences of women who are childless by choice in Ireland, to gain a grea...
In Singapore, it is observed that married women tend to drop out of the labour force in order to com...
Parenthood is universally extolled to be a desirable and normative social role. However, the prolife...
Despite having progressed socioeconomically, empowered women in Singapore are still expected to subs...
Why would women in a post-modern society like Singapore continue to desire for children in the face ...
The problems of delayed marriages and low birth rates have consistently plagued Singapore. The media...
The issue of low fertility rates has always been a persisting concern in Singapore and despite the s...
With an increasing number of graduate mothers in Singapore, greater emphasis is placed on the dual r...
As Singapore’s GDP per capita rose from that of a third world country to first, it’s total fertility...
It can be noted from the literature, as well as from the results of foreign research and my own rese...
The trend of delayed marriage and rising singlehood among well-educated women are often associated w...
In recent talks (2011) to the Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Singapore ci...
Singapore’s economic development has been progressing rapidly over the past few decades. The level ...
In Singapore, the concept of family as one made up of a legally married couple with the husband as '...
In Singapore, declining birth rates are challenging dominant pronatalist discourses. Diverging life ...
This thesis explores the experiences of women who are childless by choice in Ireland, to gain a grea...
In Singapore, it is observed that married women tend to drop out of the labour force in order to com...