Upcoming
- 10 December 2026. Léa Pessin gives a talk at the Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin.
- 23 April 2027. Invited talk at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
2026
- September. Kimberly McErlean and Camille Portier took up assistant professorships at Fairfield University and Trinity College Dublin. Both remain collaborators on WeEqualize papers.
- August. Maša Krajnc presented the design of the project’s dyadic factorial survey on workplace policies and couples’ bargaining at the Annual Conference on Experimental Sociology (ACES), Sciences Po, Paris, 26 to 28 August.
- July. New paper in Socius: Visualizing the Prevalence of Couples’ Work-Family Arrangements across Countries (Portier, McErlean and Pessin), with a replication package on OSF.
- June. New paper in Sociological Science: Beyond Text: Using AI-Generated Visual Conjoints to Study Gender and Housework Attribution (Pessin and Munger).
- June. Kimberly McErlean received the best poster award at the Work and Family Researchers Network 2026 conference in Montreal for “Is Marriage a ‘Gendering Institution’?”.
- May. New paper in Social Forces: Examining the Relationship between Male-Breadwinning and Divorce: The Impact of Work-Family Policies in the United States (McErlean).
- May. Camille Portier presented “One Typology or Many?” at the ISA RC28 Spring Meeting in Seville and at the Workshop on Family, Labor Market and Social Stratification in Bologna. Kimberly McErlean presented two posters at the PAA Annual Meeting in St. Louis.
- January. New paper in the Journal of Marriage and Family: Differently Educated US Couples and Their Work-Family Arrangements, 1968-2023 (Pessin and Querin).
2025
- December. Léa Pessin presented the visual conjoint study at the Research Colloquium, LMU Munich.
- October. WeEqualize convened a CIVICA-funded workshop at the EUI on the growing divergence in political views between young women and men and what it means for partnership and the division of work and care.
- September. New paper in Socius: Gender Egalitarianism and Marital Dissolution: Understanding the Bifurcation of the ‘Gender Revolution’ in the United States (McErlean).
- May. Talks on couples’ division of labor over the life course at the workshop “Caregiving Responsibilities across the Life Course” in Lund and at the University of Florence seminar series.
- April. Léa Pessin presented the synthetic couples method at the Time Use Conference (College Park, Maryland) and at the PAA Annual Meeting (Washington, DC). Kimberly McErlean presented at both meetings.
- March. Three WeEqualize papers presented at the ISA RC28 Spring Meeting in Milan.
- January. Léa Pessin presented work on demographic change and couples’ arrangements at the Alpine Population Conference, La Thuile.
2024
- September. WeEqualize starts at the European University Institute on 1 September 2024.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. This work is supported by ERC grant WeEqualize (101117327, DOI 10.3030/101117327).
