Too little time to read? Attend the new book showcase Friday w/ @wfrn.bsky.social! "Labor and Inequality in Contemporary Family Life: Perils and Possibilities" featuring new books by Allison Daminger, @jaclynswong.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy, @bail3y.bsky.social. Register: wfrn.org/virtual-conf...

New in @amjsoc.bsky.social by researchers at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social: "Inequalities decrease when [work-family] policies stimulate equality, and as a result can reduce the influence of heterosexual gender dynamics." www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Stimulating (In)equality? The Earnings Penalty in Different-Sex and Female Same-Sex Couples Transitioning to Parenthood in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 13...

The Nordic countries are known as family-friendly welfare states, yet gendered work-care divisions remain. We use a case study approach focusing on the key differences in work-family policy packages i...

journals.uchicago.edu

@joyamisra.bsky.social's presidential address on "Sociological Solutions: Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy." "I want to push sociology as a field into working directly with communities to co-create a more equitable, more just world." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The thing about scientific research is that it’s one of the few national investments that’s a clear public good even if you entirely discount the actual ostensible point of it.

Sherry Pagoto, PhD@drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · last yr.

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

One way to keep people docile is to prevent researchers from collecting the data that might reveal the full scope of the harm that's being done (in this case, to pregnant and postpartum people and their infants). talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...

CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health

The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a federal data collection...

talkingpointsmemo.com

"diversity initiatives at tech companies – while not necessarily effective in reducing racial or gender inequality – are effective in convincing some workers that their companies are diverse" academic.oup.com/socpro/artic...

“We’re Better than Most”: Diversity Discourse in the San Francisco Bay Area Tech Industry

Abstract. Despite recent efforts to diversify their workplaces, tech companies remain predominantly White, Asian, and male—drawing on in-depth interviews w

academic.oup.com

“How do we make our ideas make a difference” as researchers?@philipncohen.com, your book is next on my reading list! Thanks to @wfrn.bsky.social for this fantastic panel.

New in Work and Occupations: "Introducing Excellence: Gender and the Introductions of Faculty Finalist Candidates in Engineering Job Talks." Helpful for those interested in professional cultures and the reproduction of inequality. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

Important new work by WashU colleague Margot Moinester + Emory prof Kaitlyne Stanhope: "This research shows how state policies tied to immigration can affect immigrant families’ health and well-being, even when those policies have nothing to do with health." theconversation.com/providing-dr...

Providing driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants improves birth outcomes, research shows

State-level immigration policies can have surprising ripple effects.

theconversation.com

Translation: when the economy is booming, but men disproportionately benefit, women resist having kids.

Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 2y ago

Fascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies. Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility.. www.nber.org/papers/w33311

Joining the Ezra Klein Show was the professional highlight of my year. We discussed how hard it is to parent in the US, and why. We also discovered our shared dream of a co-parenting commune. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/o...

Opinion | The Deep Conflict Between Our Work and Parenting Ideals

The sociologist Caitlyn Collins discusses why parenting feels so difficult in America.

nytimes.com

More brilliant work by @pgonalon.bsky.social and @imarinescu.bsky.social in American Sociological Review: "Childcare costs exacerbate family income gaps between partnered women with and without a college degree by 34 percentage points." Staggering finding. doi.org/10.1177/0003...

Washington DC adds $10K to child care worker pay via a tax on residents earning >$250K. The result: teachers are less likely to quit, more child care slots, children receive better care. Cost is $53M with an estimated 23% return on investment. www.npr.org/2024/12/12/n...

How D.C. tackled a child care crunch through a tax hike on the rich

In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.

npr.org

Over lifetime, each additional year of union membership reduces the odds of mortality by 1.5%. Effects primarily occur between ages of 41 and 67. Nice work @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Mortality Implications of a Unionized Career

An emerging literature has documented a wide range of protections and benefits that union membership provides for health and wellbeing. However, this …

sciencedirect.com

“New York is making history by becoming the first state to give prenatal paid leave.” Starting Jan. 1: www.wbls.com/news/gov-kat...

Gov. Kathy Hochul Announces Paid Prenatal Leave In New York

Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced that New York State will be the first in the nation to offer Paid Prenatal Leave to expecting mothers.

wbls.com

Thrilled to contribute to a special issue dedicated to THE Viviana Zelizer and link of her #money research to #family studies. Check out the issue at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1755618x...

Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie: Vol 61, No 4

Click on the title to browse this issue

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Maude Pugliese@maudepugliese.bsky.social · 2y ago

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We're in the NYTimes today! I'm so grateful to @jessgrose.bsky.social for her piece on #TheLastHumanJob, spreading the word about the stratification of human contact! AI is just making some long-standing trends more obvious: the time to value human interaction is now

My new article with Caitlyn Collins and Shamus Khan on constructing cases, generating claims, and generalizing conceptually in qualitative research is out in the @AnnualReviews. A big thank you to the qualitative scholars who inspired and informed our work! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...