The Future of Our Living Together
Tuesday Dialogue Series of the Einstein Center Population Diversity
In the framework of this digital event series, we discuss key questions related to the future of our societies in a circle of experts and interested stakeholders.
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Mind the Parental Age Gap! Why it matters for social change that fathers tend to be older
Tuesday, 6 October 2026, 1-2 PM CEST
(with German-English simultaneous translation)
Sebastian Klüsener, Research Director of the ‘Ageing, Mortality and Population Dynamics’ division at the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Wiesbaden | Adjunct Professor at the Department for Sociology and Social Psychology of the University of Cologne | Visiting Professor at the Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
Despite improvements in gender equality, average age gaps between fathers and mothers have proven remarkably persistent in most high-income countries. Fathers tend to be on average about three years older than mothers. However, these average values mask substantial shifts in parental age differences by maternal age at birth. In this Tuesday Dialogue, Sebastian Klüsener will discuss why the parental age gap matters both for prospects of achieving higher gender equality and polarisation trends in society.
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Tuesday Dialogues: This series of public, online talks on demographic research and pressing societal issues has taken place one Tuesday a month since 2020. Since 2024 they are being organized in collaboration with the Einstein Center Population Diversity in Berlin. The Wissenschaft in Berlin Förderfonds supports this important initiative in a forward-looking field of research.
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