I am a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC funded APPARENT Project led by Daniela Grunow. Before joining this project in October 2012 I obtained my PhD in Sociology at the University of Groningen. My dissertation research focused on the relationship of working conditions and occupations with fertility. Within the APPARENT Project I will focus on the sub-project CAREERS.

The APPARENT Project The project assesses contemporary parenting norms and practices and their diffusion in seven European countries. The international collaboration includes Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic, and Poland. The project develops a comparative framework to study prevalent motherhood and fatherhood norms, images, identities and behavior in current societies. The focus is on how mothering and fathering is constructed by professionals, welfare states, and popular media, and will assess how cultural and institutional norms and images are perceived and realized by expecting and new parents. Apparent is a 5-year research program which started in January 2011.

Sub-projectCAREERS
Employment transitions at entry into parenthood
This sub-project assesses how welfare states, labor markets and family policies target at mothers and fathers roles as earners and care givers, and how this has changed in recent decades. The focus is two-fold: First, the project will explore gendered patterns of employment interruption and part-time work for parents and assess their career consequences in comparative perspective. Second, the project will assess associations between national context and gender roles using multilevel regression, where institutional and other macro-level variables will be merged with individual-level data. Based on the findings from the other three projects it will also supply important methodological innovations in how to measure sex roles in cross-national perspective. 

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