Enhancing Health and Wellbeing Over the Family Life Course

Becoming a Female-Breadwinner Household in Australia: Changes in Relationship Satisfaction

N Blom, B Hewitt

2020-08-01

Objective: This study longitudinally investigated the associations between becoming a female-breadwinner household and changes in ..

Life transitions and women's desired number of children: the impact of motherhood, relationships and employment

Melissa Johnstone, J Lucke, B Hewitt

2020-03-27

To better understand the gap between women’s childbearing aspirations and actual levels of childbearing, this paper investigates t..

Part-time strategies of women and men of childbearing age in the Netherlands and Australia

Mara Yerkes, Belinda Hewitt

2019-06-26

This book brings together leading international authors from a number of fields to provide an up to date understanding of part-tim..

Does part-time employment status really reduce time pressure?

Judy Rose, Belinda Hewitt

2019-06-01

Part-time employment rates are increasing in Australia, for both women and men. However, gendered patterns in part-time employment..

Contemporary fatherhood: Social, demographic and attitudinal factors associated with involved fathering and long work hours

L Coles, B Hewitt, B Martin

2018-12-01

Time pressures around work and care within families have increased over recent decades, exacerbated by an enduring male breadwinne..

Exploring the Cohabitation Gap in Relationship Dissolution and Health and Wellbeing: A Longitudinal Analysis of Transitions from Cohabitation and Marriage in Switzerland and Australia

B Hewitt, Marieke Voorpostel, Gavin Turrell

2018-06-26

With the increase of unmarried cohabitation a growing body of research examines health differences between married and cohabiting ..

Do active modes of transport cause lower body mass index? Findings from the HABITAT longitudinal study

G Turrell, BA Hewitt, JN Rachele, B Giles-Corti, L Busija, WJ Brown

2018-04-01

BACKGROUND: Few studies have examined the causal relationship between transport mode and body mass index (BMI). METHODS: We examin..

Making and unmaking families

Belinda Hewitt, Michelle Brady

2018-01-01

The Handbook on Gender and Social Policy provides a comprehensive introduction to this field with up-to-date accounts of debates a..

Young maternal age at first birth and mental health later in life: Does the association vary by birth cohort?

Z Aitken, B Hewitt, L Keogh, AD LaMontagne, R Bentley, AM Kavanagh

2016-05-01

Background: It is well established that maternal age at childbirth has implications for women's mental health in the short term, h..