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Significant expansion of legal rights and recognition of sexual minority populations triggered expectations that structural stigma, sexual minority stress and, consequently, previously well-documented disadvantages in health and well-being may decline over time. The empirical evidence on this issue is, however, still sparse and inconclusive. We contribute to this research by comparing baseline data from the German Family Panel (pairfam; 2008-09) and the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA; 2021). These data allow us to assess disparities in subjective well-being by sexual orientation and potential changes therein after legalisation of same-sex marriage in Germany in two adult cohorts interviewed more than a decade apart. We focus on two specific outcomes, namely life satisfaction and self-rated health. Two main findings emerged from our analysis: First, minority sexual orientation is associated with significantly lower subjective well-being, specifically lower life satisfaction. Second, there are no statistically significant changes in the sexual orientation-health nexus between cohorts. Our study, thus, neither lends support to "optimistic" expectations regarding the contribution of (further) reductions in institutional discrimination and structural stigma to (further) reductions in remaining disadvantages, nor does it lend support to "pessimistic" expectations suggesting that younger cohorts of sexual minority adults may experience an even larger gap in health and well-being than previous cohorts. We propose that the stability of sexual minorities' disadvantages in subjective well-being during the first two decades of the 21st century in Germany be interpreted as the result of two opposing forces working in parallel: Reduced institutional discrimination and increased exposure to continued stigma. The legal recognition of same-sex relationships appears to be a necessary but not sufficient condition for the acceptance of sexual minorities. Remaining disparities by sexual orientation will thus not simply disappear when institutional discrimination of sexual minorities is eliminated. Currently, we may therefore find ourselves in a "transitory period" whose further evolution is difficult to predict. FReDA - with its evolving longitudinal dimension and the inclusion of self-reported measures of respondents' sexual orientation - will constitute a powerful resource for future investigations of inequalities in yet understudied but increasingly visible sexual minority populations.

Politikwissenschaft richtet ihr disziplinäres Augenmerk auf gesellschaftliche Akteure und politische Institutionen sowie deren Beziehungen zueinander, durch die Macht- und Herrschaftsverhältnisse Gestalt annehmen. Die Zweigeschlechtlichkeit von Politik wird allerdings in der Fachdisziplin kaum rezipiert. Dabei ist sie grundlegend für Wissenschaftslogik und Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Der Beitrag startet mit einer Positionierung, was in der derzeitigen Wissenschaft "feministisch" bedeutet. Weiter geht es mit der Diskussion von zwei Begriffen, die in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte als Kernvorstellungen zum Tragen gekommen sind: Zum einen geht es um Naturvorstellungen und zum anderen um Identitätslogik. Abschließend werden Thesen formuliert, die feministische Theoriebildung auch in der Politikwissenschaft befruchten könnten.

The OSCE Yearbook 2006 contains a wealth of informed writing on the Organization, its work, the issues that concern it, and the states whose participation bring it to life. Highlights of the twelfth edition include a consideration of the work of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, a review of the state of OSCE reform, and detailed analyses of the progress - or lack of progress - in resolving the "frozen conflicts" in the Caucasus. A special section on the Black Sea region looks at recent developments in Ukraine, Bulgaria's relations with the OSCE, the economic aspects of regional conflicts and the lack of a Black Sea "security complex". Readers are granted an inside view of the work of the OSCE's fi eld presences in Macedonia, Belarus, Moldova, Azerbaijan and Central Asia, as well as the Organization's growing involvement in fields such as counterterrorism and police reform. There are also considerations of the OSCE Document on Stockpiles of Conventional Ammunition, the role of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the promotion of gender equality, EU-OSCE co-operation, and the relationship between the Organization and the ASEAN Regional Forum. (Nomos-Verl. / IFSH)

"Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit dem Zusammenhang zwischen Bildungshöhe, Bildungsrichtung und Kinderlosigkeit österreichischer und schwedischer Frauen der Geburtenjahrgänge 1955-59. In beiden Ländern haben Frauen mit einer Ausbildung im Unterrichts- oder Gesundheitsbereich eine geringere Kinderlosigkeit als Frauen mit einer Ausbildung in anderen Bildungsrichtungen. Deutliche Unterschiede bestehen hingegen im Ausmaß der Kinderlosigkeit zwischen schwedischen und österreichischen Frauen nach Bildungshöhe: Schwedische Frauen mit Universitätsausbildung haben im Schnitt nur wenig höhere Kinderlosigkeit als Frauen mit niedrigerem Bildungsabschluss. In Österreich dagegen bleiben Frauen mit Abitur oder höherem Bildungsabschluss wesentlich öfters kinderlos als Frauen mit niedrigerem Bildungsabschluss." (Autorenreferat)