Kathleen Broussard
@kbroussard.bsky.social
Sociologist | sexual and reproductive health, fertility, medicine, and policy | proud Texan 🤠
People are making different decisions about parenthood and family than they did in the past, even among religious and conservative populations.
Utah, Known for Big Families, Leads the U.S. in Dropping Birthrates (Gift Article)
Forget tradwives. When it comes to plummeting fertility rates, Utah is leading the country.
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✔️Research article! @kbroussard.bsky.social underlines that concepts such as “ #fertility gaps” or “ #unmet fertility goals” should be defined carefully, measured consistently, and interpreted in relation to the specific construct they capture. 🔗 austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572%2...
Kathleen Broussard@kbroussard.bsky.social · 2mo agoAs fertility decline becomes a growing topic of debate, we must distinguish between changing preferences vs fertility barriers. Claims about fertility shortfalls, including who is most affected, depend heavily on how we define and measure them. Read the paper here: austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572_0...
What proportion of women end their childbearing years with fewer children than they want? Amid declining birth rates, researchers and policymakers have sought to understand the prevalence of “unrealized fertility,” but this concept is inconsistently defined and measured. (1/3)
New work w/ @kbroussard.bsky.social in @prpr-journal.bsky.social! We find that women with reproductive health conditions (like fibroids or endometriosis) are *more* likely to want a child but, conditional on wanting a child, *less* likely to intend to have one. 1/2 rdcu.be/e5BE6
You may have heard that Trump’s extortion of University of California was defeated in court. But do you know who won this historic case? Spoiler: not a single UC administrator participated. It was all faculty members of the UC Faculty Associations and @aaup.org! Cc: @veenadubal.bsky.social
Behind the Scenes: How UC Faculty Beat Back Trump's Attacks
YouTube video by UC Faculty
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You've probably heard that US fertility is "below replacement level." But what does that actually mean??? Demographers @lesja.bsky.social & others explain the link between birth rates & population growth in this new @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief. contemporaryfamilies.utah.edu/publications...
TWO new Assistant Professor positions in Sociology at USC! Seeking candidates with expertise in the following: 1) Institutions & Inequalities and 2) Socially Informed AI and/or Data Science (links to job ads below👇). Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology (1/3)
I'm on a quest to find great (and I suppose, not so great) examples of interviews to share with my students for a class on interviewing methods. Please share your favorites! #sociology #interviewing
Just discovered this amazing resource for teaching about redlining and racial inequality in the US. Planning to show my students redlining maps and language from their own city in SC this year. dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/red...
Mapping Inequality
Redlining in New Deal America
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TWO AP positions in Women's and Gender Studies at UofSC! Expertise in global social movements; Latina/o, Asian American, and/or Indigenous activism in the US; or girlhood studies. Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/192...
Assistant Professor
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Important new @prbdata.bsky.social report on access to birth control across the U.S. Wide variation, unfortunately, showing that where you live matters for contraceptive options. stateofaccess.prb.org
Home - State of Access : A Contraceptive Policy Scorecard
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Tehran is 380 square miles. It has a population of 10 million people. If you cannot imagine that then imagine evacuating New York population just 8.5 million. Imagine the logistics, the roads— pregnant women? Children? Elderly? This is just an announcement of a mass execution of innocents.
Incredible visualization of global migration www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First (Gift Article)
These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.
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I have lived in authoritarianism before, and participated in a popular movement against it. My political voice was born in it. I was just talking to a friend - this moment is *triggering* because it feels like so few people are reacting on the magnitude of what I know is coming.
8/8. So, if you’re feeling down about these attacks, I understand—I feel that way too. But just remember that they’re not attacking because your work doesn’t matter; they’re attacking *precisely* because it does. So, get some rest, connect with your people, and keep doing it.
This is a rather telling statement. Nearly a third of women in Louisiana are Black. www.businessinsider.com/gop-senator-...
Maternal death rate isn't as bad if you don't count Black women, GOP senator says
Louisiana's Bill Cassidy said the state's maternal death rate isn't so high if you "correct our population for race," Politico reported.
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A poem for the start of the academic semester: onbeing.org/poetry/what-...
What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade | The On Being Project
Mrs. Nelson explained how to stand still and listen to the wind, how to find meaning in pumping gas, how peeling potatoes can be a form of prayer. She took questions on how not to feel lost in the dar...
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Me when I find out all my friends get their recipes from the NYT cooking section
Matthew O. Hunt@mohunt.bsky.social · 2y agoToday's student paper quote: "Societal forces have been shaping my individual behavior for the past 18 years and I had no idea."
Calling all poetic sociologists and sociological poets! What are your favorite poems about knowledge, science, gender, and/or sexuality? I'll start the list with one of my new favorites, read by Padraig O Tuama: "A word on statistics" #sociology #poetry onbeing.org/poetry/a-wor...
A Word on Statistics | The On Being Project
Out of every hundred people those who always know better: fifty-two. Unsure of every step: nearly all the rest. Ready to help, as long as it doesn’t take long: forty-nine. Always good, because they ca...
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UMass/Amherst (left) and Wesleyan University are both warning their international students to be on American soil before noon on Jan 20 -- Inauguration Day.
Finally it’s today! The WIC conference on delayed reproduction: challenges and prospects is taking place in Vienna and is also online. Jacky Boivin , Anna Rotkirch and Lucy van de Wiel will be our keynote speakers. Great forthcoming two days!
Delayed Reproduction: Challenges and Prospects
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The Meaning and Measurement of Unrealized Fertility @kbroussard.bsky.social proposes a conceptual framework that accounts for biological, social, and psychological factors that contribute to unrealized fertility
Miranda Yaver@mirandayaver.bsky.social · 2y agoHoly shit, the new mifepristone lawsuit claims that mifepristone is suppressing teen birth rates and thus harming applicable states' population growth. (see p. 190) Literally, and I can't stress this enough, WTF. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Dr. Tomlin-featured in a video here-provided compassionate care for me when I had a miscarriage a couple of years ago. Local police harassed her after she provided abortion to a 13 year-old rape victim. She (understandably) decided to leave the state. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Abortion Stories in Post-Roe America
In text messages, videos, voice memos and pictures, we hear from the people at the frontlines of abortion access about how their worlds have changed.
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Anthropologists are so cool. Anais Martin made a comic book about the experiences of gamete donors who were contacted by their offspring (check out more of her work @chairprocreation on IG) crcppa.uqo.ca/en/our-proje...
Contact Project : The experience of gamete donors contacted by their donor offspring | Chaire de recherche du Canada
The Contact project aims to examine situations in which a gamete donor is directly contacted by a donor offspring, whom they did not previously know. The study will help better understand the conseque...
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