We‘re very excited for the next edition of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim! ✨ Join us and apply until 1 March! More info in @melinscribe.bsky.social‘s thread below and here: summerschoolwpm.org Application form: sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/wpm/

❄️ Freezing cold outside? Perfect timing to submit your work for our Family Diversity & Health summer workshop in Berlin ☀️ 📅 June 29–30, 2026 📍 Hertie School, Berlin 🫶 No participation fees 🏨 1 hotel night covered 📨 1-page abstracts due: Jan 31, 2026

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗸𝘁𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 | 𝗘𝗵𝗲, 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿, 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗱𝘂𝗻𝗴: 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝘀𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗻 𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝗳 𝗱𝗮𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻? Dieser und weiteren Fragen gehen Sarah Schmauk, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Carole Bonnet und Benoît Rapoport in einem vom FNA geförderten Projekt nach. Weitere Informationen: 👉🏼 rebrand.ly/1qsb6kh

📢 Call for Abstracts Join us at the Family Diversity & Health Workshop June 29-30 2026 in Berlin! We welcome submissions on intersections of health & family research, especially using register data. 🌏 🫶 No participation fees & hotel costs are covered. 📨 Send us your abstracts by Jan 31 2026

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....

I‘m very happy to share that my thesis “Couples‘ Careers and Women’s Financial Security in Later Life” has been awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Section Social Policy of @dgsoziologie.bsky.social ♾️-thanks to @katjamoe.bsky.social and Bernhard Ebbinghaus for their invaluable support! #dgs2025

💫Very happy to share that my first single-authored paper has been published in @sfjournal.bsky.social. I suggest to combine Life Course Feature Selection with Ñopo decomposition to disentangle which life-course events drive gender inequalities such as Gender Pension Gaps doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... 🧵👇

Researching inequalities among older adults? Interested in uncovering gender biases in quantitative research? Join us for a FemQuant seminar where @crowold.bsky.social will discuss Invisible Biases & Unequal Outcomes. 🗓️ 18 Sept 📍Online Check time in your time zone & register 👇

We are hiring a 3-year postdoc for the ERC-funded WEALTHTRAJECT project at DIW Berlin. More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...

🗞️ Hot off the (last month’s) press: Happy to finally share that the paper with @nicolekapelle.bsky.social on family life course predictors of wealth has been published in @demresjournal.bsky.social ! See the whole article (open access 🫶) here: www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol... Little 🧵

📚 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

‼️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

Der #GenderPayGap macht sich auch in den Rentenansprüchen bemerkbar. Das belegt eine Studie von DIW-Forscher @phaan.bsky.social. Vor allem Mütter haben deutlich niedrigere Ansprüche als kinderlose Frauen. Die Anrechnung von Kindererziehungszeiten verringert die Lücke kaum www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

Very excited to share that my first solo-authored paper is published in @demresjournal.bsky.social! ✨ I explore key trends in intimate partner violence (IPV) in Colombia over time and examine its relationship with infant health. Read more here 👇

❓ 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....

Are you going to #PAA2025 and work with sequence analysis? Then submit your paper to our pre-PAA sequence analysis workshop, happening right before #PAA2025, same venue, on April 9 - free of charge! You only need a 200-word abstract 🚀 and can also just register for attendance. See y'all there! 🤗

📢 Flexible working supposedly addresses women's work-family conflicts but is less prevalent in women-dominated occupations. @aljoschajacobi.bsky.social, @tabeanaujoks.bsky.social & I explore why and how this has changed over past decades Out in @socialindicators.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s112...

We are hiring a postdoc for the deciphe.eu project at @diw.de. Work with @svidal.bsky.social, @sbeduk.bsky.social, S. Zinn, M. Medgyesi, myself, and other fantastic team members to understand the intergenerational persistence in homeownership in Europe! More details here: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...

I’m looking for an RA to work 20-30h during Jan-March 2025. Ideally (quasi-)native speakers of Swedish, and it involves reading policy/legal docs related to education and climate change. 24.92GBP/hour If you or someone you know are interested email me at [email protected]!

The Sustainable Ageing Working Group of the European Association for Population Studies announces its first conference! 11-12 September 2025 Padua, Italy Deadline for submissions: 21 March 2025 See the attached call for papers for further details tinyurl.com/4u7ajh8c @valeriabordone.bsky.social

Our new AJS article shows that high earning family and work life courses are remarkably similar in different countries, but differ much for low earners. This is related to country specific policies structuring especially the low-earning life courses. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

New pub @europeansocieties.bsky.social!🚀 @apweiland.bsky.social & I explore intra-couple gaps in retirees’ fin. resources. We find (1) diff. in East↔️West Germany, (2)⬆️ gaps in pension than net wealth, (3) diff. in spouses’ employ. explain gaps in pension but not in net wealth: osf.io/preprints/os...

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 @wfrn.bsky.social @cwfjournal.bsky.social go.bsky.app/63Jq944 #Sociology #Demography #hdfs #PoliSky #academicsky

Poverty and social policy started pack with EU focus. Wave to be added. go.bsky.app/BQXryVx

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

Im neuen Einstein Center Population Diversity (ECPD) kommen Forschende verschiedener Berliner Einrichtungen zusammen. Am Beispiel der Familie gehen sie den aktuellen demografischen Veränderungen nach. Heute nimmt es für 6 Jahre seine Forschung auf: einsteinfoundation.de/presse/2024/...

🚨JOB ALERT 🚨 We're hiring 3 postdocs for the new Einstein Center Population Diversity. Work with a fantastic team of social scientists and biomedical researchers in the city of Berlin! Details: bit.ly/3RX0GpZ Apply by Feb 7 & dm or email for questions.

📢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!

Absolutely excited that the DFG has just approved the renewal of @dynamics.bsky.social 🥳🍾 We are delighted to train 20 additional PhD students working on demography, democracy and public policy during the next 5 years at Humboldt University and @hertieschool.bsky.social! www.dfg.de/service/pres...

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