new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity.

"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

Fazit neuer @wsiinstitut.bsky.social-Studie zur geplanten Abschaffung der gesetzl. tägl. Arbeitszeitgrenze: weder erforderlich, noch sinnvoll
🔻Lange, fragmentierte Arbeitstage bereits heute Arbeitsrealität vieler Beschäftigter
🔻führt zu höheren Belastungen+Verschärfung von Geschlechterungleichheiten

How have you been impacted by the changes we've seen under the current administration? What would you want to say to those in charge?

I'm launching a new research initiative to collect and share anonymous stories of the human toll. And I'd be very grateful for your help.

tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

Freiwillige #Frauenquoten verbessern nicht nur die Karrierechancen von Frauen. Sie können auch ein Umdenken in der gesamten Belegschaft bewirken, hin zu einem egalitäreren Verständnis von #Geschlechterrollen.

Das zeigt eine aktuelle Studie des @wsiinstitut.bsky.social und der Uni Bielefeld.

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🧠 Takeaways:
▪️ Subjective well-being is highly sensitive to social protection gaps
▪️ The solo self-employed are especially vulnerable in crisis contexts
▪️ Strengthening their safety nets is essential for more resilient labor markets

👔 Job satisfaction:
🧍‍♂️ Employees: steady decline through 2023
🧑‍💼 Solo self-employed: steep drop in 2021 — but full recovery by 2022
→ Suggests resilience among the self-employed, possibly due to regained autonomy

📉 Findings – life satisfaction:
Both groups saw a decline in 2021, but:
➡️ The solo self-employed were hit earlier and harder
➡️ Their life satisfaction dropped significantly in 2020 and 2021
➡️ It recovered only partially by 2023 — still below pre-pandemic levels

📊 We use nationally representative panel data from PASS (2019–2023) and estimate fixed-effects models to track changes in Life satisfaction and Job satisfaction for solo self-employed vs. employees.

💡 Background:
The solo self-employed often report higher well-being than employees — but also face greater economic risks.
COVID-19 hit them hard: many lacked access to income replacement (like short-time work benefits) and had limited social protection.

📢 Thrilled to share our new paper with MerlePohlmeyer& KarinSchulzeBuschoff, just published in @socialindicators.bsky.social “Diverging Paths? The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Subjective Well-Being of the Solo Self-Employed and Employees in Germany (2019–2023)”
🔗 rdcu.be/ers11
🧵 Key insights 👇

DEIprograms shape more than just numbers. AnjaAbendroth and I show: in workplaces with gender quotas&mentoring for women, employees hold significantly more egalitarian gender beliefs.
At a time of global backlash, this is a reminder of why such policies matter
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New publication in @europeansocreview.bsky.social

With @piaschober.bsky.social, Silke Büchau, Viktoria Werner & Katharina Spiess, we show that hypothetical daycare quality improvements would increase acceptance of daycare usage and longer maternal working hours in Germany.

doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

#Weltfrauentag – wie ist es um die Chancengleichheit und Gleichberechtigung von Männern und Frauen in 🇩🇪 bestellt? Unser Forschungsüberblick bündelt aktuelle Analysen und Befunde:
www.boeckler.de/de/auf-einen...

Ihr wollt was Lesen aber nichts dafür zahlen? 📖🤑Ab heute ist unser Corona Buch „Was von Corona übrig bleibt“ bei Campus im Open Access erhältlich

www.campus.de/e-books/wiss...

Am 20.02. erscheint eine wissenschaftliche Analyse der Pandemie-Folgen von u.a. @bettikohlrausch.bsky.social: „Was von Corona übrig bleibt Erwerbsarbeit, Sozialstruktur, gesellschaftliche Folgen“.

Auch mit Blick auf die Bundestagswahl hoch-relevant.

www.campus.de/buecher-camp...