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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · Jun 14

lol

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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · Jun 14

Indeed, unfortunately we did not test this, but what else is future research for? ;)

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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · Jun 12

🎯 Implications:

1) Potentially, mismatches between perceived skills and job tasks might deter girls from entering tech-heavy roles.

2) To close the gender gap in occupations, we need to address perceptions of skill fit, not just offer better hours or pay.

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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · Jun 12

🩺💻: The popular “people vs. things” dichotomy is a multidimensional preference structure:

💥Girls dislike technical tasks, but boys are fine with both technical & social tasks.

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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · Jun 12

🔍 Key insights:

- Girls avoid jobs requiring technical skills.
- Both genders like social skills.
- Girls prefer creative and routine tasks.
- Both genders appreciate a high salary (no sig. diff.).
- Girls prefer a meaningful job and family-friendliness.

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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · Jun 12

We conducted a choice experiment among Swiss teens shows:

💰Boys and girls have similar preferences for workplace characteristics (salary, family-friendliness, meaningfulness).

💻 Skill requirements—especially technical tasks (IT reliance)—are responsible for gender differences.💥

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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · Jun 12

Traditionally, researchers have focused on factors like salary or family-friendly hours to explain why men and women choose different jobs.

But what about skill requirements (e.g., creativity required for work tasks; strong IT reliance)?

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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · Jun 12

New study alert, just out in SER! 🚨

What really drives gendered occupational choices among adolescents?

➡️It might not be workplace characteristics (e.g., salary), but skill requirements.

academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

@sasemeeting.bsky.social, @snsf.ch,‬ @unibe.ch ern.bsky.social, @unisg.ch

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Valentina Di Stasio @distasioval.bsky.social · Jun 3

Happy to be at this great interdisciplinary conference on Gender Issues in Education & the Labor Market organized by @benitacombet.bsky.social in Zurich. Here @julehauf.bsky.social from @clic.bsky.social presenting fresh experimental results on how to increase men's interest in nursing

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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · May 3

Not only acting as gatekeepers for scientific funding at NIH, NSF etc, but now trying to gate keep the entire scientific process.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · May 2

Since this was published yesterday, NPR reports JAMA joins NEJM on the list of journals that confirms they’ve been sent threatening letters by Trump’s DOJ, ominously referencing their tax-exempt status in a bid to compel regime-friendly editorial choices.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

The Scary Implications of U.S. Government Attacks on Medical Journals

A Trump-aligned prosecutor’s attack on medical journals is a threat to your health care—and the medical establishment should not comply

www.scientificamerican.com

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · Apr 25

This great piece by @badnewshagen.bsky.social really gets into the sexism, racism, and eugenics that make up the very fabric of US pronatalist efforts. www.npr.org/2025/04/25/n...

They say they want Americans to have more babies. What's beneath the surface?

Pronatalists believe that modern culture has failed to adequately prioritize the value of nuclear families and making lots of babies. They see powerful potential allies in Elon Musk and JD Vance.

www.npr.org

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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · Apr 23

Ever wondered whether women really hate programming that much or whether they just have such a huge preference for helping? Join, I’m presenting new work!

MZES Uni Mannheim @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social · Apr 23

❗️ Tue, Apr 29, 13:45-15:15 CET
📍 A 231 and ZOOM
MZES Speaker Series
with @benitacombet.bsky.social

"Unpacking the People vs. Things Divide in Gendered Field of Study Choice"

👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...
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Detail

www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de

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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · Apr 12

💥💥💥Deadline is approaching fast!!! Apply if you’re interested in promotion inequality! Also open to adjacent disciplines! 💥💥💥

Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · Mar 7

🚨 Open postdoctoral researcher position 🚨:

▪️ PhD in sociology, econ, organiz. psychology, etc.
▪️ 80%, 2-year position @unibern.
▪️ Main tasks: set up + manage Swiss employer-employee panel & doing research on careers in companies
▪️ More infos: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Uni Bern: Postdoctoral researcher in sociology or adjacent fields (e.g., economics, organizational psychology)

Institute of Sociology, University of Bern Start of employment: 01.07.2025 or by agreement Employment is for a fixed term of 2 years, with options to extend up to 4 years.

ohws.prospective.ch

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · Mar 14

See information below for all precarious female academics at Max Planck Institutes in need of mentorship (confidential, of course)
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@ngawiss.bsky.social @nnwiss.bsky.social @netzwerkmawi.bsky.social

#Machtmissbrauch
#Hochschule
#Wissenschaft
#IchBinHanna
#IchBinReyhan
#Befristung
#Prekarisierung

Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · Mar 13

Since 10 years I have been serving as a mentor for MinervaFemme-Net - a mentoring programme of the Max Planck Society that supports women. If you are in need of support / mentorship, contact the coordinator Anke Huebenthal (see: www.minerva-femmenet.mpg.de) and she will try to find a mentor for you!

Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · Mar 13

I was lucky to have two supervisors at a Max Planck Institute in which I worked for a decade - first as a PhD student & then as PostDoc - who supported me, let me explore my own topics and were happy for me when I had my child. But I know that this was by no means standard
www.dw.com/en/uncovered...

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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · Mar 7

🚨 Open postdoctoral researcher position 🚨:

▪️ PhD in sociology, econ, organiz. psychology, etc.
▪️ 80%, 2-year position @unibern.
▪️ Main tasks: set up + manage Swiss employer-employee panel & doing research on careers in companies
▪️ More infos: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Uni Bern: Postdoctoral researcher in sociology or adjacent fields (e.g., economics, organizational psychology)

Institute of Sociology, University of Bern Start of employment: 01.07.2025 or by agreement Employment is for a fixed term of 2 years, with options to extend up to 4 years.

ohws.prospective.ch

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Silja Häusermann @siljahausermann.bsky.social · Jan 21

‼️ Hiring ‼️

Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich

📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years)
📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years)

Application deadline in early March.

Job ads & details:
tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk

We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions

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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · Jan 22

In these turbulent times (just, wtf?), I have some good news. 🥳☀️🌈

I’m very happy to announce that I'll be starting as an assistant professor (TT) at @unibern.bsky.social this February!!

It's been a long journey and I'm very grateful to everyone who has supported me along the way. 🤍

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Jan 2

Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself."

Earlier that day:

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Anders Hjorth-Trolle @andershtrolle.bsky.social · Nov 19

In a new IZA WP (▶️ docs.iza.org/dp17411.pdf), @rlandersoe.bsky.social and I show that intergenerational income mobility and its underlying mechanisms vary strongly across parents’ income. We present 3 main findings:

1/4 #EconSky #SocSky

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Feb 10

Neue Studie: Atlantikströmung "auf Kippkurs".
Sie verleiht den jüngsten Berichten noch mehr Gewicht, die starke Warnungen formuliert haben, wie der OECD Climate Tipping Points Report 2022 und der Global Tipping Points Report 2023.
scilogs.spektrum.de/klimalounge/...

Neue Studie legt nahe, dass die atlantische Umwälzzirkulation AMOC „auf Kippkurs ist“

Heute wurde in Science Advances eine neue Studie veröffentlicht. Der Titel sagt schon, worum es geht: „Physics-based early warning signal shows that AMOC is on tipping course.“ Die Studie folgt einer ...

scilogs.spektrum.de

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Olivier Bos @olivierbos.bsky.social · Nov 26

Probably the most chilling paper I read in 2023, yet essential reading for all of us. academic.oup.com/qje/advance-... #EconSky 📉📈

Violence Against Women at Work*

Abstract. In this paper, we link every police report in Finland to administrative data to identify violence between colleagues, and the economic consequences fo

academic.oup.com

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Nov 24

New blog on the problem of the continued proliferation of eugenic ideology in academia, including "national IQ" data.

(Part of) the solution is to prioritise research integrity, rather than the acquiring of grants, papers & profit (which current academic structures incentivise)

The persistence of eugenics in mainstream journals highlights major gaps in research integrity

When published, bad data can have long lasting negative impacts on research and the wider world. In this post Rebecca Sear, traces the impact of the national IQ dataset and reflects how its continu…

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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · Nov 18

Thx for the phone calls last January in the middle of it all! 😅

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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · Nov 18

Indeed, although Switzerland isn’t blessed with Nordic register data 😬

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Benita Combet @benitacombet.bsky.social · Nov 18

The questions necessary to answer my research questions are already clear, but the survey should be a resource for other researchers as well. Hence, I’m currently collecting questions, so thx for the idea! :)