When babies and PhDs collide: a gendered story
Becoming a parent during doctoral training carries lasting career consequences, but not equally for women and men. Xinyi Zhao presents the results of a global study on 8,097 academic parents … Read more
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Socioeconomic inequalities and single women’s entry into parenthood in Belgium
Socioeconomic inequalities shape the ways in which people form families. Denise B. Musni and Christine Schnor show that these inequalities influence women’s likelihood of becoming a mother while single, but … Read more
Self-rated health trends by gender and race in the USA, 1972-2018
Are Americans feeling better or worse since the 1970s and does this pattern vary by gender and race? Jason L. Cummings explores U.S. trends in self-rated health inequalities over the … Read more
Occupational characteristics and the gender wage gap among parents in Europe
The gender wage gap persists, especially among mothers. Alícia Adserà and Federica Querin show that despite low wages in predominantly male occupations that depend on heavy machinery, women (and chiefly … Read more