Who suffers more from divorce: men or women? Debates about gender differences in the consequences of divorce as well as policies aimed at alleviating these differences often center on women’s vulnerability (Amato 2000 Diedrick 1991). Taken together, these findings suggest that men’s disproportionate strain of divorce is transient, whereas women’s is chronic. Third, the key domain in which large and persistent gender differences emerged were women’s disproportionate losses in household income and associated increases in their risk of poverty and single parenting. The medium-term consequences of divorce were similar in terms of subjective economic well-being mental health, physical health, and psychological well-being residential moves, homeownership, and satisfaction with housework and chances of repartnering, social integration with friends and relatives, and feelings of loneliness. Second, a medium-term view on multiple outcomes showed more similarity than differences between women and men.
First, men were more vulnerable to short-term consequences of divorce for subjective measures of well-being, but postdivorce adaptation alleviated gender differences in these outcomes. Three main findings emerged from the analysis. I used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and fixed-effects panel regression models on a sample of N = 18,030 individuals initially observed in a marital union, N = 1,220 of whom divorced across the observation period (1984–2015). In this study, I examined gender differences in the consequences of divorce by tracing annual change in 20 outcome measures covering four domains: economic, housing and domestic, health and well-being, and social.
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