Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Bath, author of Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy bit.ly/3wzcTGM. Editor, LSQ. gender quotas, parties, gender & far right, mental load #academicmama https://anacweeks.github.io/
Ana Catalano Weeks
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If you are headed to the first-ever meeting of EPSS in Belfast, bookmark this schedule & come check out all the excellent research on gender, sexuality, and politics!
@turnbulldugarte.com & I had a v tough job narrowing it down… from engagement and ambition to polarization, backlash and more 👇
@leahruppanner.bsky.social’s fantastic new book Drained is out and covered by NPR life kit (including our research on US parents!). Run don’t walk to get her mental load audit & practical advice !! www.npr.org/2026/04/21/n...
“Over half reported having reviewed or adjusted key words in research proposals, and almost half said they’d reframed research topics. [43%] had also cautioned students or collaborators to be careful what they say publicly and more than a third had abandoned plans on one or more research topics.”
Tres textos claves que ayer recomendé a mis estudiantes, que a mi juicio son aportes relevantes en la discusion pública. De las autoras @anacweeks.bsky.social @luciadammert.bsky.social Pamela Figueroa y @ceciliarikap.bsky.social
NPR spotlighted JMF author @leahruppanner.bsky.social in a Q&A about her new book & mentioned a JMF article she coauthored: tinyurl.com/mvr85uz7
The JMF article, authored by @anacweeks.bsky.social & Dr. Ruppanner, explored gender distribution of parents' cognitive labor tasks: tinyurl.com/mcfn9s3s
Ana Catalano Weeks
The US government has a new website for moms that is peddling pro-natal, trad-wife propaganda:
“the only mention of working motherhood on the homepage links to a warning that “workplace exposures, conditions, and tasks can affect workers’ sexual and reproductive health.”
See @jessicacalarco.com👇
Ana Catalano Weeks
Scott L Greer
Voters are ~4X as likely to be able to vote for a David as for a Sarah… there are 516 Davids, 453 Johns, 385 Pauls & 137 Sarahs among the candidates.
“…our needs & experiences are not going to be represented by an endless supply of Davids and Johns” -Penny East
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The Rothermere American Institute at Oxford is recruiting for the Churchill Associate Professor of United States Politics, looking especially for a colleague with expertise in American political development. The application deadline is May 6. See the job listing here:
www.rai.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work.
We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...
"Men can't see the mess." "Women are better at chores." These myths position women to take on more emotional thinking, says researcher Leah Ruppanner. She shares what works to reclaim your headspace.
"Men can't see the mess." "Women are better at chores." These myths position women to take on more emotional thinking, says researcher Leah Ruppanner. She shares what works to reclaim your headspace.
RFK called moms. gov a "one-stop shop" for mom/child health, but it's real aim seems to be "asserting Trump’s pro mom bona fides while preying on vulnerable women with thinly veiled propaganda of an anti-abortion, anti-vaccine, and anti-feminist bent."--my latest for MSNOW
www.ms.now/opinion/moms...
www.ms.now
The website is aimed at asserting the president’s “pro mom” bona fides while preying on vulnerable women.
The programme for @epssnet.bsky.social's inaugural conference in Belfast is now live.
W\ @anacweeks.bsky.social, we were responsible for chairing the Gender & Sexuality Section.
Our section will have 13 panels over 3 days. You can see the full programme here: lnkd.in/gQbba9ev
Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte
Reform mobilising non-voters looks to be a big story from this year’s locals. As so often, non-voters are the “dark matter” of politics - rarely discussed but so numerous they even mobilising a small slice can have big effects. Particularly in low turnout local elections.
Frustrated with the election pundits talking as if votes only 'swing' from one party to another. I did some analysis of the results, and my modelling (based on votes only, not polls) suggests that the largest movement since 2024 local elections (by a long way) is from 'Did Not Vote' -> Reform
