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By admin / Posted onJune 19, 2020

What are we learning about gender equality?

DIAL researchers brief European Commission Gender Equality team Equal Lives PI Susan Harkness joined other researchers from the DIAL research programme to outline what the Equal Lives project has told us to date about gender equality. Susan’s presentation outlined the Continue Reading …

By admin / Posted onJune 19, 2020

How will the response to coronavirus affect gender equality?

New blog on how COVID19 could impact on gender equality progress Equal Lives PI Susan Harkness joined forces with a group of economists to write about how Covid-19 crisis presents a potentially major setback for gender equality in a blog Continue Reading …

By admin / Posted onApril 9, 2020

Unemployed parent? How does that affect a teen’s school choices and achievements?

In the second Episode of Series 2 of our podcast looking at research emerging from the Equal Lives project, we talk to Jani Erola and Hannu Lehti from the University of Türku in Finland about their research, The heterogeneous effects Continue Reading …

By admin / Posted onJanuary 15, 2020

Does family size matter for poverty risk after divorce?

In a new DIAL Working Paper, Equal Lives researchers Zachary Van Winkle and Thomas Leopold examine the poverty risk for women up to six years following divorce in relation to the number of children in the household in the year of divorce. Continue Reading …

By admin / Posted onJanuary 15, 2020

Nordic work-family policies: do they promote equality between men and women?

Research looking at whether policies aimed at supporting work-family balance for families help minimise gender gaps in earnings in Finland is featured in the latest Issue of Discover Society. Continue Reading …

By admin / Posted onJanuary 13, 2020

Family, firms and fertility: the spillover effect of workplace and family

New research published in Demography shows that when an individual has a baby can be directly linked to the fertility decisions not only of their closest family and colleagues, but of wider networks. Continue Reading …

By admin / Posted onDecember 5, 2019

Do Nordic countries live up to their promise of creating fairer and more equal societies?

Episode 1 of our Equal Lives Series of the DIAL Podcast discusses research from Marika Jalovaara and Anette Fasang on Family Life Courses, Gender and Mid-Life earnings. Continue Reading …

By admin / Posted onNovember 28, 2019

Social inequality in work-family life courses

Anette Fasang presents new findings from the Equal Lives project at a at the Berlin Social Science Centre workshop on Demography and Inequality. Continue Reading …

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By admin / Posted onOctober 21, 2019

Which parents earn less over the lifecourse and when?

Research from Zachary Van Winkle and Anette Fasang investigates the wage penalties and premiums for parents and how they play out over their lives depending on how many children they have and their race and gender. Continue Reading …

Black woman and white man and woman working
By admin / Posted onOctober 11, 2019

Work-Family life courses: where do inequalities exist?

Research from Anette Fasang and Silke Aisenbrey sheds further light on the gender and race inequalities facing people who are combining work and looking after a family. Continue Reading …

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