Surprisingly few studies, however, have looked at the ways that assumptions about gender affect European demographic patterns. Over a decade of research into demographic behavior in Italy, and the rest of Europe, has led to a number of theories seeking to account for very low fertility. In fact, Italy had one of the lowest birthrates in the world in the 1990s, plunging to hitherto unforeseen low levels. Although stereotyped as proud of their traditions and ingrained in their ways, Italians have adjusted with seeming ease to both contemporary low birthrates and diminishing patriarchy. The patriarchal Italian father surrounded by his many bambini hardly exists anymore in today's Italy. Gendering Men: Masculinities and Demographic Change in Contemporary Italy
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