Too little time to read? Attend the new book showcase Friday w/ @wfrn.bsky.social! "Labor and Inequality in Contemporary Family Life: Perils and Possibilities" featuring new books by Allison Daminger, @jaclynswong.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy, @bail3y.bsky.social. Register: wfrn.org/virtual-conf...

New in @amjsoc.bsky.social by researchers at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social: "Inequalities decrease when [work-family] policies stimulate equality, and as a result can reduce the influence of heterosexual gender dynamics." www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

@joyamisra.bsky.social's presidential address on "Sociological Solutions: Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy." "I want to push sociology as a field into working directly with communities to co-create a more equitable, more just world." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The thing about scientific research is that it’s one of the few national investments that’s a clear public good even if you entirely discount the actual ostensible point of it.

One way to keep people docile is to prevent researchers from collecting the data that might reveal the full scope of the harm that's being done (in this case, to pregnant and postpartum people and their infants). talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...

"diversity initiatives at tech companies – while not necessarily effective in reducing racial or gender inequality – are effective in convincing some workers that their companies are diverse" academic.oup.com/socpro/artic...

“How do we make our ideas make a difference” as [email protected], your book is next on my reading list! Thanks to @wfrn.bsky.social for this fantastic panel.

New in Work and Occupations: "Introducing Excellence: Gender and the Introductions of Faculty Finalist Candidates in Engineering Job Talks." Helpful for those interested in professional cultures and the reproduction of inequality. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Important new work by WashU colleague Margot Moinester + Emory prof Kaitlyne Stanhope: "This research shows how state policies tied to immigration can affect immigrant families’ health and well-being, even when those policies have nothing to do with health." theconversation.com/providing-dr...

Translation: when the economy is booming, but men disproportionately benefit, women resist having kids.

Joining the Ezra Klein Show was the professional highlight of my year. We discussed how hard it is to parent in the US, and why. We also discovered our shared dream of a co-parenting commune. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/o...

More brilliant work by @pgonalon.bsky.social and @imarinescu.bsky.social in American Sociological Review: "Childcare costs exacerbate family income gaps between partnered women with and without a college degree by 34 percentage points." Staggering finding. doi.org/10.1177/0003...

Washington DC adds $10K to child care worker pay via a tax on residents earning >$250K. The result: teachers are less likely to quit, more child care slots, children receive better care. Cost is $53M with an estimated 23% return on investment. www.npr.org/2024/12/12/n...

Over lifetime, each additional year of union membership reduces the odds of mortality by 1.5%. Effects primarily occur between ages of 41 and 67. Nice work @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“New York is making history by becoming the first state to give prenatal paid leave.” Starting Jan. 1: www.wbls.com/news/gov-kat...

Thrilled to contribute to a special issue dedicated to THE Viviana Zelizer and link of her #money research to #family studies. Check out the issue at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1755618x...

We're in the NYTimes today! I'm so grateful to @jessgrose.bsky.social for her piece on #TheLastHumanJob, spreading the word about the stratification of human contact! AI is just making some long-standing trends more obvious: the time to value human interaction is now

My new article with Caitlyn Collins and Shamus Khan on constructing cases, generating claims, and generalizing conceptually in qualitative research is out in the @AnnualReviews. A big thank you to the qualitative scholars who inspired and informed our work! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...