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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 8d

35 Years of #Reunification
MPIDR Researchers Discuss the Demographic Situation in #Germany
Nicole Hiekel is Leader of the Research Group Gender Inequalities & Fertility @mpidr.bsky.social.
Full quote: www.demogr.mpg.de/go/reunification
#EastGermany #WestGermany #CareWork #GenderInequality #Family

Portrait of a woman with brown hair and a black top in front of a green background with text about German reunification and gender inequality. Her quote says: German reunification brought together two different traditions of balancing family and career. Even 35 years later, these differences persist. While women's participation in the labor market has increased overall, the unequal distribution of care work remains a key challenge.

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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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Nicole Hiekel @nhiekel.bsky.social · Jul 26

Spoke to Der Spiegel about gender differences in what makes a partner attractive. And why women being picky and men being not ambitious enough is a lame story that does not become more true by reiterating it.

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · May 28

MPIDR@PopDays2025 @aisp-sis.bsky.social
@mpidr.bsky.social will be participating in #PopDays2025 in Cagliari. From 4 to 6 June, we will be presenting our research there. We're looking forward to the conference & to lots of 🍨🍕🍧🍝🍦- not necessarily in that order 😉
demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

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AISP @aisp-sis.bsky.social · Jun 4

Everything is ready for the 2025 edition of Population Days - the conference of the Italian Association for Population Studies.

We are looking forward to seeing you all in Cagliari!

👉 Use #PopDays2025 to post about the conference!

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Katja Möhring 🦁 @katjamoe.bsky.social · May 23

Still welcoming your applications 🤗

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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Klara Raiber @klararaiber.bsky.social · May 7

Come work with us!

Radboud Gender & Diversity Studies @radboudgender.bsky.social · May 7

Interested in how how migration reshapes fatherhood, emotional life, and gender performances?
@klararaiber.bsky.social and Francesco Cerchiaro are hiring a PhD candidate for an exiting project at Radboud University.

Find all information here: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Deadline: June 1st

PhD Position: Fatherhood, Emotions and Masculinity in Migration | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a PhD Position: Fatherhood, Emotions and Masculinity in Migration at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

www.ru.nl

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Nicole Hiekel @nhiekel.bsky.social · May 2

Oops. Thank you anyways for the great initiative!

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SocArXivBot @socarxivbot.bsky.social · Apr 29

The motherhood penalty on poverty risk within couples in Germany: https://osf.io/ap9zb

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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

tinyurl.com

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Nicole Hiekel @nhiekel.bsky.social · Apr 29

🙋🏻‍♀️ great list of family scholars, I’d love to be added, thanks!

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Nicole Hiekel @nhiekel.bsky.social · Apr 27

I wrote a chapter on cohabitation and marriage for this book. It’s open access!

ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social · Apr 25

📚 NEW BOOK - open access!

Leading scholars explore how individual life trajectories, societal norms, and legal frameworks are shaping modern #relationships.

Co-edited by CPC member @briennaph.bsky.social

🔖 www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/res...

@bspsuk.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social

Research Handbook on Partnering across the Life Course
Research Handbooks in Sociology series
Edited by Dimitri Mortelmans, Centre for Population, Family and Health (CPFH), University of Antwerp, Belgium, Laura Bernardi, Swiss Center of Expertise in Life Course Research (LIVES), University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and Brienna Perelli-Harris, Department of Social Statistics and Demography, University of Southampton, UK
Publication Date: April 2025 ISBN: 978 1 80392 337 6 Extent: 394 pp
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com.

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Vegard Skirbekk @vegardskirbekk.bsky.social · Mar 27

Open Postdoctoral position! - ERC Advanced Grant project HOMME

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/276000/postdoctoral-fellow

About the HOMME project www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/research/projects/homme

Postdoctoral Fellow (276000) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow (276000), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, April 25, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Mar 21

🏆📰DGD Best Paper Award for Athina Anastasiadou🎉
@athinaanas.bsky.social has won the Best Paper Award of the German Society for Demography (DGD) for her paper "#Gender Differences in the #Migration Process: A Narrative Literature Review". Congrats Athina!
Read all:
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

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Natalia Soboleva @natsobol.bsky.social · Mar 19

Happy to take part in this exciting conference #GIF2025

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Mar 19

🆕Conference"Gender Inequalities, Fertility & the Future of Family Demography:Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity” kicked off @mpidr.bsky.social!Researchers from around the🌏are engaging into discussions on how gender inequalities shape fertility, families, & demographic change. #GIF2025

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Katya Ivanova 🟥 @katyaoivanova.bsky.social · Mar 20

Day 2 of the great #GIF2025 at @mpidr.bsky.social. Listening to @philipncohen.com pick apart the "depopulation panic" w/ figures like this: if global TFR drops to 1.66, in ~200yrs, the global population will be at the 2000 level.

Of course these panics are not about humanity as a whole, are they?

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Mar 19

An entire conference of family demographers. Outstanding! #GIF2025 (what is the collective noun for this?)

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Mar 19

🆕Conference"Gender Inequalities, Fertility & the Future of Family Demography:Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity” kicked off @mpidr.bsky.social!Researchers from around the🌏are engaging into discussions on how gender inequalities shape fertility, families, & demographic change. #GIF2025

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Nicole Hiekel @nhiekel.bsky.social · Mar 19

The fantastic team of my research group „Gender Inequalities and Fertility“ brought this amazing crowd of international family scholars to @mpidr.bsky.social. What a rewarding experience to host a conference that aims to give shape to a timely research agenda.#GIF2025

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · Mar 19

🆕Conference"Gender Inequalities, Fertility & the Future of Family Demography:Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity” kicked off @mpidr.bsky.social!Researchers from around the🌏are engaging into discussions on how gender inequalities shape fertility, families, & demographic change. #GIF2025

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Nicole Hiekel @nhiekel.bsky.social · Mar 7

Unlike men, German women’s income drops by 20 percent on average upon marriage. Reasons are nonegalitarian gender roles and incentives for joint taxation. WP here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4ffpm...

www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/a...

Einkommen von Frauen sinken nach Heirat um 20 Prozent

Wenn Frauen heiraten, sinkt ihr Arbeitseinkommen im Schnitt um 20 Prozent. Das bestätigt eine neue Studie. Als Gründe nennen die Forscher falsche Anreize im Steuersystem und alte Rollenbilder.

www.tagesschau.de

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Bettina Kohlrausch @bettikohlrausch.bsky.social · Feb 27

Ich hoffe, die zukünftigen Koalitionäre (ich nutze mal bewusst die männliche Form) lesen diesen Beitrag von Birgit Riegraf, ehemalige Präsidentin der @unipaderborn.bsky.social. Gerade in diesen Zeiten ist Geschlechterforschung unverzichtbar!

„Wissenschaft und Politik müssen die Angriffe auf die Geschlechterforschung ernst nehmen“

Die Soziologin Birgitt Riegraf warnt davor, Angriffe auf die Gender Studies herunterzuspielen. Sie seien ein „Testfall“ für die Demokratie.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · Feb 24

🇩🇪🗳️ German election 2025

The conservative coalition (CDU/CSU) won Sunday’s national vote, while the far-right AfD saw its best-ever result, winning swathes of support in the east.

For the SPD, it was a disaster.

The results: www.politico.eu/article/germ...

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Nicole Hiekel @nhiekel.bsky.social · Feb 24

The gender gap in voting behavior in the 18-24 yrs age group in yesterday’s election in Germany. Women lean towards the left, men to the right.

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · Feb 14

Priceless data infrastructure 🗽

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Feb 14

FANTASTIC

ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)

You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have

www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

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Nicole Hiekel @nhiekel.bsky.social · Feb 14

Find ich richtig gut!

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Nicole Hiekel @nhiekel.bsky.social · Feb 12

Mehr als die Hälfte aller erwerbstätigen Frauen in Deutschland haben keine langfristige Existenzsicherung. Die ökonomische Abhängigkeit von Müttern minderjähriger Kinder ist mit 70% noch höher.

Gleichberechtigung: Jede zweite erwerbstätige Frau kann die eigene Existenz nicht sichern

Die Hälfte der Frauen kann laut einer Studie des DGB langfristig nicht allein von ihrem Einkommen überleben. Grund ist auch die ungleiche Rollenverteilung bei Paaren.

www.zeit.de

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