Submit your short abstract by 15 December 2025 to cpos@bib.bund.de

📢 Call for Papers 📢
Excited to co-edit a Special Issue on “Time Use and Family Dynamics in Contemporary Europe” in Comparative Population Studies (CPoS)!
We invite submissions using time-use data to advance research on family life across Europe.
🔗 www.comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...

Recent trends in parenthood in Swedish same- and different-sex legal unions: emerging gender and socioeconomic differences - Genus Parentalization, or becoming a parent and being legally and socially recognized as such, has long been constrained for sexual minorities. Although many studies have examined the outcomes of children o...

Parenthood among same-sex couples has changed as policy & social contexts have evolved. Swedish data revealed that same-sex parenting increased over time among women, but remained rare among men.

👉 New paper by Mollborn, @martinkolk.bsky.social & Evertsson

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

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I would love to be added to your starter pack. Thanks :)

📣 Labor market scholars & anyone curious about flexible working — don’t miss this!

@heejungchung.bsky.social will be giving an online talk on the flexibility paradox this Monday, 14 April.

✉️ Register here: socialpolicygroup@hertie-school.org

Good news! If you want to attend online, email us by Thursday (3 April) at socialpolicygroup@hertie-school.org - If there is insufficient interest in online participation, the event will be held fully in person.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🎉

🔎 Why are female-dominated jobs less likely to offer flexible working-time arrangements, despite policies designed to support work-life balance?

In our latest #EUIResearch interview @mhamjediers.bsky.social explains how gendered views on caregiving & work commitment shape this gap 📌 buff.ly/zCw9Hj8

Happy to see this insightful study by @stefaniamolina.bsky.social published! 🎉 It dives into the complex relationship between family dynamics, intimate partner violence, and infant health in Colombia. Worth a read for anyone interested in how social factors impact child well-being.

❓ How fair is the division of labor around first childbirth? Women feel it is most fair near birth but increasingly unfair as the child grows, while men’s perceptions remain unchanged.

▶️ New publication by Maria Hornung & @comochia.bsky.social open access!

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

Lisa Paus stellt Zehnten Familienbericht vor Der Zehnte Familienbericht untersucht die Lebenslagen Allein- und Getrennterziehender und nimmt dabei die Dynamiken im Lebensverlauf in den Blick. Lisa Paus stellte den Bericht im Kabinett vor.

Excited to see our work on the 10th Family Report on the impact of divorce and separation across the family life course presented today by German Minister of Family Affairs @lisapaus.bsky.social. Check out key insights and recommendations here ⬇️ www.bmfsfj.de/bmfsfj/theme...

We stumbled onto this puzzle in @heejungchung.bsky.social work who laid the groundwork for most of this.

Also 10/10 can recommend working with Maik and Tabea :)

Links and fancy graphs with key findings 👇

Interested in flexible working-time arrangements?

Check out our new paper 👇

Herzlichen Glückwunsch 🥳
Bin sehr gespannt auf das neue Netzwerk zur reproduktiven Gerechtigkeit!

Have a look at this new article on feminized part-time work and mental load!

I made a Starter Pack!

But I got tired after 70 names. Intended to be inclusive of the #work-family adjacent and interdisciplinary

Reply if you'd like to be added and please RT

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New article out with Marco Giesselmann & @davebrady72.bsky.social! We examine how the increase in refugees to Germany influenced exclusionary beliefs & behaviors among Germans. Big thanks to Dave Brady for breaking down our findings—check it out below! 👇

Berlin Skyline with the Text "22nd Conference of the European Divorce Network, 10-11th October 2024, Berlin, Germany

Don't miss the submission deadline for the Divorce Conference 2024 - this year we will meet in Berlin!
www.uni-due.de/divorce-conf...

Had an awesome start to the week kicking off my research stay at MZES at Uni Mannheim! 🚀 Staying here for three weeks, so if you're around, let's catch up and chat! 😊

📢 Join us on March 4th for the 1st Hertie Distinguished Equality Lecture at the Social Policy Research Colloquium! Jonas Rees will discuss "From collective remembrance to collective forgetting" from 12:30-13:30 in Room: Forum A. Don't miss this insightful session! @hertieschool.bsky.social

📢Job Alert: We´re recruiting 10 Doctoral Researchers
@dynamics.bsky.social Program studying #DemographicChange, #DemocraticProcesses and #PublicPolicy @hertieschool.bsky.social and Humboldt-University Berlin.
Great Job, great city, vibrant research community! Come and join our team in Berlin!

The authors "find that gay and lesbian people have higher educational attainment than heterosexual people in all five countries and that these higher levels of education stem from greater rates of upward educational mobility among gay/lesbian people."

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Great presentation by @nhiekel.bsky.social on latent class analysis of attitudes towards gender equality & how these profiles of attitudes are related to fertility intentions in Nordic countries.

Using new wave of GGP gender attitude questions enabling multidimensionality.

@dynamics.bsky.social