

Understanding how both young women and young men experience and respond to different aspects of their family lives is central to achieving many of the targets on gender equality under Sustainable Development Goal 5, including in relation to unpaid care and domestic work, early marriage and parenthood and domestic violence.
Young Lives unique longitudinal data allows us to investigate how the consequences of childhood poverty and gender inequality play out in family lives and livelihood decisions. In their third decade of life, many of the young people in our study have already entered into marriage or cohabitation, setting up households and having children of their own. Our mixed-methods intergenerational research allows an in-depth understanding of what happens within households, and how widening inequalities impact young people’s transition through adolescence into adulthood.
Understanding how both young women and young men experience and respond to different aspects of their family lives is central to achieving many of the targets on gender equality under Sustainable Development Goal 5, including in relation to unpaid care and domestic work, early marriage and parenthood and domestic violence.
Young Lives unique longitudinal data allows us to investigate how the consequences of childhood poverty and gender inequality play out in family lives and livelihood decisions. In their third decade of life, many of the young people in our study have already entered into marriage or cohabitation, setting up households and having children of their own. Our mixed-methods intergenerational research allows an in-depth understanding of what happens within households, and how widening inequalities impact young people’s transition through adolescence into adulthood.