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Kim McErlean

@kimmoments.bsky.social

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doctor (non-med kind 📚) studying families, gender, and inequality 👫👭👬. orange cat mom 🐱. neurodivergent af 💫. reality tv superfan 📺. expect many posts about my move to florence ✈️, general chaos vibes 🪩, and insufferable posting about marathon training 👟

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Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · 21d

Chapter 2 of my dissertation is now available in Socius! doi.org/10.1177/2378...

In it, I aim to shed light on the debate as to whether gender specialization or gender egalitarianism is more beneficial for marital stability, considering education as an under-explored moderator of these associations

Gender Egalitarianism and Marital Dissolution: Understanding the Bifurcation of the “Gender Revolution” in the United States - Kimberly McErlean, 2025

In the context of women’s increased economic status coupled with declining divorce rates, the “gender revolution framework” suggests that greater gender equalit...

doi.org

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Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · 7d

asked the woman in our cafeteria if the fried fish was fried mozzarella, in case you’re wondering how american i am 😭

Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · 10d

i love my weather app bc it’s like 10% chance of rain *starts pouring* or 80% chance and nary a cloud in sight. anyway guess which happened this am?

(i’m being dramatic it wasn’t pouring but there was unexpected rain several times. the last few wednesdays have been a little cursed for me)

Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · 11d

I've been stuck in freeze mode for weeks, but the past two days were particularly bad...sometimes you gotta send yourself an email in the middle of the night with the subject "get yo shit together" with allll of your panic thoughts and then go on and get your shit together. so that's today's goal💅

Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · 12d

stepped away from my computer and came back to this. would be so great if lovebug was actually capable of handling some of this for me

an orange cat sits on an orange and pink patterned chair (he blends in a bit) in front of a brown dining room table. on top of the table is a laptop and mouse and many sheets of paper. it looks like lovebug is contemplating the task at hand but he is probably just wondering why the laptop is not shut so he can sit on it

Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · 14d

oh interesting! i definitely think delayed marriage plus more cohabitation as a “trial marriage” has helped for sure. now that women can afford to support themselves independently, they don’t need to rush into (potentially bad) marriages!

Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · 14d

there’s some good qualitative work on relationship progression with regard to marriage that suggests exactly what you’re saying. i actually am not as sure about qualitative work around divorce specifically

Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · 14d

at the moment, i am not doing any qualitative work (it’s a long term dream!), but i have a sort of follow up study in progress where im looking at the role of work family policy as well - “choosing” an egalitarian division may not be possible without support to reconcile work and family.

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Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · 17d

looked outside this AM and made the decision that we were gonna do this in the rain. first 6 miles it was actually pleasant. was positively pouring for the last 3+. but we made it (and now it’s like sunny lol)

view of the ponte vecchio in the rain. this picture does not capture the essence of how much it was raining but the ponte vecchio looks pretty (she always does)

Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · 19d

every sunday, i make a to-do list for myself that implies a level of productivity i have never once experienced in my life. why do i keep thinking i can magically accomplish all of the leftovers from the prior week in one day?! i think there’s a term for this (insanity)

Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · 21d

Gender Egalitarianism and Marital Dissolution: Understanding the Bifurcation of the “Gender Revolution” in the United States - Kimberly McErlean, 2025

In the context of women’s increased economic status coupled with declining divorce rates, the “gender revolution framework” suggests that greater gender equalit...

doi.org

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Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · 21d

there’s fuck putin graffiti inside cascine that i see a lot and today i saw ACAB somewhere else and it’s really special that there is some shared language here 💫

Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · 21d

just unintentionally ran those 19+ miles at 8:45/mile. i reallllly gotta learn how to pace myself 😅

Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · 21d

today’s panic reading the marathon facebook page: people talking about 1 gel every :30 or less?!? right now i eat half a chew maaaaybe every 6 miles lol (like it is only since prob 16 miles i’ve even stopped twice to eat instead of once lol). i mean i guess we know what works for us but am i crazy??

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27d

At least 15 people including journalists and teachers have been fired or suspended for criticising Charlie Kirk online, Reuters reports.

Free speech for us, not for you.

#NorthKoreaShit

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27d

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 26d

"The labor participation rate for women with children younger than 5 had the biggest midyear drop in more than 40 years during the first six months of 2025."

Remote policies helped women work. In-office mandates and child care costs are driving them back out.
Low flexibility and high child care costs are pushing mothers with young kids to the sidelines after they joined the workforce in record numbers during the pandemic.

Emma Nelson
The Minnesota Star Tribune
September 13th at 6:01 AM CDT

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Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · 28d

my emotional support recovery beverages

an array of beverages on a brown table in front of a white cabinet: chocolate milk, gatorade, generic coop sports drink, and a blue water bottle

Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · 28d

i almost cry a lot while running bc i am in awe that my little mentally ill brain is doing this but today they were setting up for the triathlon in the park and i ran by what i think is the finish area and actually almost had to stop bc i was so emotional thinking about nyc
lol why am i like this

Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · 29d

not getting enough done during the week so having to work weekends but then burning out and not getting enough done during the week so having to work weekends but then burning out and having to work weekends and burning out and working and on and on and on 🌀

Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · Sep 10

anyway if you ever need a couch (ish) to marathon plan, hit me up. you only have to run 4 days a week! but you do have to do this for basically 6 months lol

Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · Sep 10

I stumbled upon the NYC marathon FB page while looking for info and most of the posts are helpful and motivating and then you have comments like "I am 70 years old and I run 7 days a week and my long runs are 30 miles" and I am like okay, that is so amazing for you; I am just trying not to die

Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · Sep 6

love when i’m on my run and im like yay it’s snack time 😊😊😊.. and the snack is just an energy chew made of pure sugar that im hoping will do the lords work for me

Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · Sep 6

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Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · Sep 6

this is great evidence to have for our proposal to get a pull-up bar in our hallway.

Kim McErlean @kimmoments.bsky.social · Sep 1

im so desperate to sleep through the night that im trying out calm’s sleep story called “once upon a GDPR” where a british man just reads part of the gdpr legislation and this might be genius?

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