Women and men after the first union dissolution

The starting point is ths observed different behaviours of men and women after the break-up of a union. Women more often than men form a lone-parent family, while men enter a new union. The economic conditions worsen for women more than for men and so the general standards of living. Findings are supported by a micro level analysis of life course data collected in the OECD countries trhough the Family and Fertility Surveys (1990s). The ways in which the two genders face the period after a marital dissolution are strongly dependent on the starting family conditions, the available resources and personnel characteristics, not to mention the Countries' specific institutional and cultural context.