👇Staggering results of expansion of early public children on female employment in Germany

Spannend: Väter mit Return-To-Office Initiativen sind *zufriedener* als kinderlose Männer. Bei Frauen ist es genau umgekehrt.
So richtig zufrieden scheint aber niemand zu sein (Skala 0-10)

France says goodbye Windows, hello Linux!

Positive News: France has announced its plan to ditch Windows & switch to Linux for government desktops. 🥳 🇫🇷

Not only that, but they have also moved 80, 000 National Health Insurance Fund Employees to open source alternatives replacing U.S owned Big Tech platforms like Microsoft Teams & Zoom.

Diese Stelle kann nach Erbringung exzellenter Leistungen in Service und Forschung übrigens #entfristet* werden!

* Warum @gesis.org das nicht expressis verbis und offensiv bewirbt, ist mir nach wie vor ein Rätsel.

#Tenure #TenureTrack #Stellenangebot #Postdoc #IchBinHanna

The End of an Era: The Vanishing Negative Effect of Women’s Employment on Fertility ANNA MATYSIAK AND DANIELE VIGNOLI This paper examines whether women’s employment in the 21st century remains a barrier to family formation, as it was in the 1980s and 1990s, or—similar to men’s—it has become a prerequisite for childbearing. We address this question through a systematic quantitative review (meta-analysis) of empirical studies conducted in Europe, North America, and Australia. We selected 94 studies published between 1990 and2023 (N = 572 effect sizes). Our analysis uncovers a fundamental shift in the relation-ship between women’s employment and fertility. What was once a strongly negative association has become statistically insignificant in the 2000s and 2010s—and even turned positive in the Nordic countries, parts of Western Europe (France, Belgium, and the Netherlands), and Central and Eastern Europe. This shift is evident both among childless women and mothers and has occurred across all analyzed country clusters, except for the German/Southern European group, where the relationship has remained negative. These findings challenge longstanding assumptions about work–family trade-offs and suggest a reconfiguration of the economic and social conditions underpinning fertility decisions in contemporary high-income societies. The paper calls for a reconceptualization of the employment–fertility relationship and development of a new theoretical framework that better captures these evolving dynamics in contemporary high-income societies

Important new paper by @amatysiak.bsky.social and Daniele Vignoli showing that the association between women's employment and fertility is no longer negative in most high-income countries as work-family reconciliation policies and practices have increased. doi.org/10.1111/padr...

Parental leave quotas and workplace spillovers.

New Working paper by Malin Tallås Ahlzén.

www.ifau.se/en/Press/Abs...

Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/

Die Grafik zeigt 100 graue Männchen, von denen 3 blau eingefärbt sind. Das steht für die 3 Prozent der Vollzeitbeschäftigten, die ihre Arbeitszeit reduzieren möchten, um ausschließlich mehr Zeit für sich und ihre Hobbys zu haben. Quelle für diese Angabe ist die IAB-Online-Personenbefragung "Arbeiten und Leben in Deutschland" (IAB-OPAL), August 2025, eigene Berechnungen, Grafik: IAB.

⏰ „Lifestyle-Teilzeit“ bleibt die Ausnahme ⏰
Das zeigt die heute erschienene #GrafikAktuell, die die aktuelle Debatte um den Rechtsanspruch auf Teilzeit aufgreift. Die Datengrundlage liefert die hochfrequente Online-Personenbefragung #IABOPAL. 🔜 iab-forum.de/graphs/der-w...

Tortendiagramm: 23 Prozent der befragten Personen befürworten, dass Mütter von unter Dreijährigen einer Vollzeitbeschäftigung nachgehen.

🤰Mütter mit Kleinkindern finden für eine Berufsrückkehr weiterhin nur wenig Akzeptanz. Eine repräsentative Befragung hat hierzu zwölf Jahre lang die Einstellungen von 18- bis 60-Jährigen zur #Erwerbstätigkeit von Müttern und zur externen #Kinderbetreuung untersucht. 👉 doku.iab.de/kurzber/2026....

Die Zeitung DIE ZEIT fragt: mit welchem Gefühl starten Sie ins neue Jahr?

So geht so.

I guess StackOverflow is done.

This work by Pieter Buegel is probably the very first painting of a White Christmas. The pregnant, blue-cloaked Mary rides a donkey led by Joseph, but they are inconspicuous as part of the throng (The Census at Bethlehem, 1566) www.artinsociety.com/bruegelrsquo...

Ein fatales Dauerzeichen der Regierung: Schuld an der Krise seid ihr, die Bürger - und nicht wir, die Politik, die 20 Jahre lang keine Ideen entwickelt und nichts reformiert hat.

The "smartphones/social media" discourse suffers from some amazing historical amnesia. There was no 2008 financial crisis and no global pandemic starting in 2020, it's all SCREENS SCREENS SCREENS. Major world events? Just the backdrop against which SCREENS happened.

Anything close to full time or at all in many cases 🙁 haven’t checked the most recent update on the classic „a child suffers when the mother is working“ indicator in a while but I suspect no surprises there

I had to look up how it compares to Germany (yellow) - and I wasn’t disappointed… or, well, very disappointed, but proven right. childpenaltyatlas.org/event-studie...

Snack Maschine, kaputt Zettel "The light inside has broken but I still work"

Ich am Jahresende:

📢 New dataset for researchers!
The new European Parenting Leave Policies (EPLP) Dataset tracks parenting leave regulations over five decades! It provides harmonised data on maternity, co-parent, paid parental, and job-protected leave across 21 countries from 1970 to 2024.
🔗 eplp-dataset.org

"I wish I could apply to this amazing opportunity" ‐ tenured academic reposting a 12 months Postdoc offer

The scary grove where (reproducible) graphs go to die. No trick on Earth will earn you a treat there

Thank you, glad you like it

How is separation after childbirth linked to the labour earnings trajectories of mothers in Sweden and West Germany? Are there differences by mothers’ socioeconomic position?

👉 New paper by @sschmauk.bsky.social & A.-K. Nylin!

🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Ein Kleinkind steht an einer vielbefahrenen Straße. Es wird an einer Kinderleine von einem Erwachsen geführt. Text: Kinder an die Leine - die Autos wollen spielen.

Verkehrsexperte Prof. Hermann Knoflacher: "Pervers dass wir Kinder in Gitterkäfigen einsperren, damit Autos rundherum fangen spielen können. Schaffen wir eine Stadt, in der sich Kinder selbstbestimmt und sicher bewegen können." #PlatzfürKinder

I think there is a fundamental tension with full open APIs and information and an increasingly autocratic US as well as LLMs needing training data. Anything you post here can be used by both.

Been tweaking color palettes for hours? 🎨🧑‍🎨📊 Same. This package looks like a shortcut so we can go back chasing typos that break the code #dataviz #rstats

Access the paper here:
📜🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

And find the replication code 💻🗃️🔗
osf.io/47nzk (all data is accessible to researchers!) #rstats #sociology #demography

New #dataviz in @sociusjournal.bsky.social: how closely linked are motherhood penalties🤰💶📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼👩‍💼 in local labour markets in 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪?

Link btw♀️ ♂️earnings gap and 🤰 penalty holds across borders,but is even stronger within countries 🧵👇 w/ @sanderwagner.bsky.social,P Achard,I Amend

"Man, I really wish RStudio respected hierarchy in code-folded section headers... I wonder how easy it would be to..."

(inner voice: DON'T DO IT! IT'S NOT WORTH IT! JUST GET BACK TO WORK! THE YAK IS BEST LEFT UNSHORN!)

"... I'm gonna do it."

#RStats #RStudio

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.