Just a quick heads-up, to share that I will be presenting a paper at the ‘Day of Sociology‘ in Gent (Belgium) on May 26th. The presentation is called “Institutional and Demographic Explanations of Women’s Employment in 14 OECD countries, 1975-1999“. …
I presented a poster presentation called “Do children keep their mother from working?” at a Ph.D. conference at the Institute for Innovation and Governance Studies, University of Twente. I won the ‘Best Poster Award”! The jury was pleased with a …
Last weekend, the magazine of NRC Handelsblad (a major Dutch newspaper), featured an interview with Rebecca Gomperts, the founder of Women on Waves. Women on Waves is “a Dutch non-profit organization concerned with women’s human rights. Its mission is to …
Although the Netherlands are known for their liberal stance on induced abortion, currently the issue is debated again. Two only slightly related subjects now gain considerably attention in popular media and public opinion. The first is a slight change in …
New technology has that unique property of creating fascinating moral debates, which is especially so when it relates to new technology regarding life, death, or in this case: fertility. For a few years, technology has been available for the cryo-preservation …