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By admin / Posted onFebruary 2, 2022

Work and family lives: Who has a chance of having it all?

In Episode 6 of Series 2 of our podcast, we talk with Professor Anette Fasang from Humboldt University and Professor Silke Aisenbrey from Yeshiva University about their research looking at how inequality plays out in the parallel work and lives Continue Reading …

By admin / Posted onJanuary 20, 2022

In The Conversation: lockdown domestic burden research

Equal Lives research looking at how couples working at home shared housework chores during and after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown has been featured on The Conversation. The research, by Aleja Rodriguez Sanchez, Anette Fasang and Susan Harkness showed that whilst Continue Reading …

By admin / Posted onJanuary 6, 2022

Economic policies more promising to reduce work-family inequality than family interventions

by Chris Garrington New research from the Equal Lives project suggests initiatives to support disadvantaged families should focus on supporting job success rather than on marriage guidance.   Government programmes which have targeted individual families to support relationship stability may Continue Reading …

By admin / Posted onDecember 20, 2021

Sharing housework in the pandemic: what changed and for how long?

In Episode 5 of Series 2 of our podcast, we talk to Alejandra Rodríguez Sánchez from the University of Berlin and Susan Harkness from the University of Bristol about research from the DIAL funded Equal Lives project on the gendered Continue Reading …

By admin / Posted onMarch 12, 2021

How is the response to coronavirus affecting gender equality?

Equal Lives PI Susan Harkness has produced a blog for the Economics Observatory about widening inequality between men and women during the COVID-19 pandemic. In it she explains that while men and women’s employment has suffered, mothers have been hit Continue Reading …

By admin / Posted onNovember 27, 2020

Complex work and family lives

Research from the Equal Lives project has shown that family lives have become more complex in the Nordic countries. It also shows a moderate increase in employment instability among the youngest generations across most countries. It is a common perception Continue Reading …

By admin / Posted onOctober 23, 2020

New research method helps better analyse lifecourse

Equal Lives research uses new method to see whether employment life-courses converge after reunification in the former East Germany and West Germany. Assessing and analysing the different paths that groups of people follow in life and comparing these in a Continue Reading …

By admin / Posted onOctober 5, 2020

The work and family lives of Israeli women: who fares best?

New DIAL Working Paper from Equal Lives shows Jewish Israeli women have access to more advantaged lives than their Palestinian counterparts New Equal Lives research examining the work and family life courses of young Jewish and Palestinian Israeli women shows 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 …

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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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