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Lili Vargha @lilivargha.bsky.social · 1d

❓How do mothers’ and fathers’ paid work lives unfold together after the birth of their first child in DE?

✨ This new preprint takes a longitudinal, dynamic, couple-level perspective.

✨ Big differences by East & West German background, periods and couple-level education

🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Sofia Gil-Clavel @sof14g1l.bsky.social · 14d

Are you a social scientist that wants to learn R?

Then, you may find my course "R for Social Scientists" very useful!

I designed this course to give social scientists all that is necessary to start using R in their everyday work.

github.com/SofiaG1l/R_C...

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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 23d

🚨 Our new paper (w/ Kausiki Sarma) on housework & marital violence in India is just out!

We provide a "radical" rethinking of housework beyond labour division and gender performance.

@sriucl.bsky.social @wfrn.bsky.social @asa-family.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Mundane and the Extreme: Women’s Experiences of Housework and Marital Violence in India - Kausiki Sarma, Yang Hu, 2025

Mainstream theories tend to consider housework a form of labor and its gendered division a result of resource exchange or bargaining and an act of “doing gender...

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 26d

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰

Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).

You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!

#sociology

More 👇

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

jobportal.ku.dk

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Lili Vargha @lilivargha.bsky.social · 28d

Here are some comparative estimates from around the world: public + private market + private nonmarket (time costs) costs of raising a child. Work with Gretchen Donehower onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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nancyfolbre.bsky.social @nancyfolbre.bsky.social · 28d

The private cost of children in the U.S. is at least twice as high as conventional estimates suggest.

#feministeconomics

www.dollarsandsense.org/the-underest...

The Underestimated “Price of Parenting”

Even a low-ball estimate of the cost of time shows just how misleading an estimate based only on money expenditures really is.

www.dollarsandsense.org

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Carla Rowold @crowold.bsky.social · Sep 8

📊 Key findings II — Decomposition:

- Prior studies overestimated compositional share of GPGs
- My results:
→ GPG driven by gender-exclusive life-course experiences
→ Main reason = lack of male counterparts for low rewarded unpaid care work
→ Earlier & longer care spells = highest pension penalty

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Lili Vargha @lilivargha.bsky.social · 29d

Congrats congrats congrats for all winners🎉🎉🥳🥳

I just wish they were not 3 men as the committee + 4 men as the winners 🫠🤷‍♀️

Katja Möhring 🦁 @katjamoe.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations to Chen-Hao Hsu @uni-bamberg.de
for winning the 2nd place #ECSR PhD prize #ECSR2025 🥳🥳🥳

PhD prize winners at the ceremony at the ECSR conference in Cologne

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Carla Rowold @crowold.bsky.social · Sep 8

💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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Full-time employment is all that matters? Quantifying the role of relevant and gender-exclusive life-course experiences for gender pension gaps

Abstract. Gender pension gaps (GPGs) represent crucial indicators of gender inequalities over the life course. Despite reaching higher levels, they have re

doi.org

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Lili Vargha @lilivargha.bsky.social · 29d

Last week I had the pleasure presenting at #ECSR2025 and meeting many old and new friends 🥳 Stay tuned, preprints are soon coming from longitudinal linked lives approaches using group-based multi-trajectory modeling 🚀

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Institut für Soziologie, Universität Wien @ifswien.bsky.social · Aug 11

📅 Our @nadiasteiber.bsky.social and team is represented at the ECSR Conference 3–5 September in Cologne! Presenting research on education & infant health, poverty after first birth, mating market inequalities, and parents’ long-term earnings. #ECSR2025 #Demography #Inequality

t.ly/g1X03

Team Steiber at the ECSR Conference 3–5 September in Cologne

Team Steiber is represented at the conference “Demography and Social Inequality”.

www.soz.univie.ac.at

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Satu Helske @satuhelske.bsky.social · Aug 27

Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake.

#research #hiring

INVEST Research Flagship Centre @invest-flagship.bsky.social · Aug 25

We’re hiring!

Join @utu.fi & INVEST Research Flagship Centre as a #SeniorResearcher ( #postdoc ) or #DoctoralResearcher in the #SHARELEAVE project on parental leave and social inequality. 🌍👶

🗓 Apply by Sept 22 at 4 pm (Finnish time) 👉 ats.talentadore.com/apply/erikoi...

#hiring #openvacancies

Senior researcher or doctoral researcher

The Faculty of Social Sciences, INVEST Flagship Research Centre at the University of Turku invites applications for contract-based, fixed term senior researcher or doctoral researcher position from 1....

ats.talentadore.com

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UW-Madison Sociology @uwsoc.bsky.social · Jul 29

We're hiring! Please share with your networks!

The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

jobs.wisc.edu

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Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social · Aug 1

ich habe eine gute (PostDoc-)Stelle zu vergeben
100 % E13, zunächst 1 Jahr, ziemlich sicher aber sehr viel länger
ab 1.12.2025
Soziologie & Gender Studies
deadline: 15.09.2025

job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin / Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (m/w/d)

job-portal.lmu.de

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Sarah Patterson @spattersearch.bsky.social · Jul 24

A Perspective on Making “Invisible” Care Visible Through Time Use Data

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

www.tandfonline.com

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Nadia Steiber 〽️ @nadiasteiber.bsky.social · Jul 18

⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods

Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...

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Jennifer Hook @jenlhook.bsky.social · Jun 30

The call for @wfrn.bsky.social papers is open! Join us in lovely Montreal June 17-20. The 2026 theme is Centering Care across the Life Course. Preconferences for Early Career Fellows and Predocs, plus plenty of social activities.

Submit by Oct 1. All the info here: wfrn.org/2026-work-an...

2026 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference - Work and Family Researchers Network

ABOUT THE EVENT Work and Family Researchers Network next conference will be June 17-20, 2026 at Concordia University in Montreal Canada. The WFRN will host preconference events on June 17, including ...

wfrn.org

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Olga Leshchenko @olgaleshchenko.bsky.social · Jul 1

My first PhD article has been published!

🔎 It examines how the relationship between flexible working time arrangements and self-reported work-to-life and life-to-work conflict is moderated by an (un)equal domestic labor distribution within heterosexual couples.

Journal of Family Research @familyresearch.bsky.social · Jun 30

#Published: "Flexible working time arrangements and work-life conflict: The role of gender and housework" by @olgaleshchenko.bsky.social & Susanne Strauß (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demography

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Lili Vargha @lilivargha.bsky.social · Jul 1

Juhuuuuu, congratulations!

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Sandrine Metzger @metzgers.bsky.social · May 23

New study from my PhD thesis—supervised by @pablogracia.bsky.social—out in Journal of Marriage and Family!

📝 It examines how changes in paid work and housework following birth shape first-time mothers’ and fathers’ mental health trajectories.

Read here (Open access): doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13121

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library

Objective This study examines the role of changes in paid work and housework time on first-time mothers' and fathers' mental health trajectories. Background The transition into parenthood is a key...

doi.org

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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · May 21

10/ So this demographer’s take: don’t panic about birth rates. Instead, let’s invest in the education, health, and happiness of the 8 billion precious humans alive now and the billions more still on the way in our lifetimes.

#demography #pronatalism #fertility

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a window with blinds and says `` everybody stay calm ! ''

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a window with blinds and says `` everybody stay calm ! ''

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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · May 9

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

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Cristina Suero @cristinasuero.bsky.social · May 5

🚨 New publication out!

Together with M.C. Compans and Eva Beaujouan @fertdem.bsky.social, we explore how late transitions to adulthood relate to the use and outcomes of assisted reproduction.
Curious? Have a look! 📄✨

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Delayed transitions to adulthood and assisted reproduction: A study of educational differences in Spain

Transitions to adulthood are increasingly delayed in low-fertility countries, particularly among highly educated women, with significant implications …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Katja Möhring 🦁 @katjamoe.bsky.social · Apr 30

‼️JOB ALERT‼️

Come join the team 😊 Open Postdoc position at the Chair of Sociology, Family & Work

100%, 3 years, extension possible. Research interest in life course, gender inequality, pension, income/wealth, attitudes etc.
Apply by 31 May
DM me for questions👨‍💻👩‍🏫🦸

tinyurl.com/y6as7nxy

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Lili Vargha @lilivargha.bsky.social · Apr 17

Here is the longer article in English: www.valaszonline.hu/2025/04/11/r...

Researcher Concerns About the Reliability of EU-SILC Income Data in Hungary | Válasz Online

www.valaszonline.hu

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