Enhancing health and wellbeing over the family life course

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..

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

Niels Blom, Belinda Hewitt

2019-12-26

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

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

Laetitia Coles, Belinda Hewitt, Bill 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

Gavin Turrell, Belinda A Hewitt, Jerome N Rachele, Billie Giles-Corti, Lucy Busija, Wendy J 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?

Zoe Aitken, Belinda Hewitt, Louise Keogh, Anthony D LaMontagne, Rebecca Bentley, Anne M 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..