💥New | The lack of women at the top of the academic ladder is driven by unequal childcare responsibilities
✍️ @cairosofie.bsky.social @riaivandic.bsky.social @ansolassen.bsky.social & @valentinatartari.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #Childcare #Motherhood (@cep-lse.bsky.social)
Motherhood, and the unequal childcare responsibilities that follow, explain a large share of the observed gender gap in academic employment. Sofie Cairo, Ria Ivandic, Anne Sophie Lassen and Valentina ...
3/ @paulinea.bsky.social presents a paper on conservative women politicians and how they respond to the far right’s anti-feminism - indicating that sometimes they contest, but sometimes also enable the spread of anti-gender discourses
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Had to read the following sentence twice:
"Only in 2020, once the COVID-19 pandemic hit, did time open up, and I began writing the book in earnest."
Well... not for everyone...
7/ Finally, we work together with @mdietz.bsky.social & use the #OES2025 party expert survey to analyze gender and sexuality issues and suggest to look at “positional polarization” in the German party system
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5/ @paulinea.bsky.social also presents work on the digital framing of the Brosius-Gersdorf affair on the social media accounts of CDU/CSU MPs. She shows that the cordon sanitaire was enacted unevenly among them, opening discursive space for anti-feminist positions.
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Excited to be at #ECPG26 in Newcastle next week as #agendis team and that @paulinea.bsky.social & Renée Krug and I present several ongoing research studies on gender inequalities and (anti-)gender discourses in Europe.
A short project thread on what we will present on these three days 🧵1/
Häusliche-Gewalt-Vorwürfe gegen Zverev: Nicht „unser Sascha“ taz.de/Haeusliche-G...
2/ Renée presents our co-authored paper “When Feminist Ideas Lose Power”.
We analyze 25 years of parliamentary and manifesto data on gender equality policies, showing how key ideas have converged over time but contribute to what we conceptualize as “regressive progress”.
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