Can one argue that women’s emancipation is completed merely based on the perception that every individual women can make her own decisions regarding employment? And, can one use the same argument to reject a recent dissertation that found that women in the Netherlands face social pressure to stop working after having their first child –… Continue Reading
I started dreaming about my PhD defense about three weeks in advance. One dream is still clearly on my mind. It was at my defense, and everyone was there: committee, supervisors, colleagues, friends and family. I was there too, standing behind a desk trying to answer the questions. The only thing was, however, that the… Continue Reading
During my PhD I have been the president of the PhD Network of the University of Twente (P-NUT). This network attempts to connect, inform and to represent PhD candidates.One of the key debates during my term as president (and still current) was the introduction of bursary candidates in the Netherlands. Currently, most PhD candidates (some… Continue Reading
It is a Dutch tradition that a PhD dissertation contains a leaflet with propositions. I have 10 such propositions, and during the countdown towards my very own PhD defense, on January 10th, I am presenting one each day. Proposition 1: Although both are family policies, reconciliation policies facilitate women’s employment while financial support policies suppress… Continue Reading
My PhD dissertation titled “Family Policy Outcomes: combining institutional and demographic explanations of women’s employment and earnings inequality in OECD countries, 1975-2005” is now available for download. The dissertation was approved by a committee of 6 renowned scholars, and I will defend it during a public defense on January 10th, 2014. The dissertation addresses how family… Continue Reading
The Journal Sociological Research Online had requested me to write a review on Women and Society: The road to change, a book edited by Ashok S. Kolaskar and Motilal Dash. [The book] presents the personal narratives of 22 professionally successful women in India. This resulted in a collection of diverse chapters, ranging from biographies to… Continue Reading
influence.ME is an R package for detecting influential data in multilevel regression models (or, mixed effects models as they are referred to in the R community). The application of multilevel models has become common practice, but the development of diagnostic tools has lagged behind. Hence, we developed influence.ME, which calculates standardized measures of influential data… Continue Reading
The Luxembourg Income Study provides an invaluable source of income-surveys that are made compable across countries and over time. Not all the measurements of income are directly comparable, however. In some datasets the income variables were measured gross of income taxes and social contributions, whereas in other datasets they were measured net of income taxes… Continue Reading
Recently, I have been updating my online presence as a researcher. It’s amazing to see the sheer amount of online tools available to academics: It seems like we are a market now! I thought I’d share the tools I currently use professionally, and of course you are welcome to connect with me on any of… Continue Reading
Last week, I was invited to present my dissertation research during the LIS Summer Workshop. My lecture was titled “Family Policies, Women’s Earnings, and Between-Household Inequalities: Using LIS for comparative analyses“. It consisted of three parts. The first part of my lecture dealt with my argument to combine institutional and demographic explanations of women’s employment.… Continue Reading
