Marie Evertsson
Associate professor (Docent) of sociology
Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)
Stockholm University
SE-10691 Stockholm
SWEDEN

Phone: +46 8 16 26 38
Fax: +46 8 154670
E-mail: marie.evertsson@sofi.su.se

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My main research interest is in gender inequalities in the home and in the labor market and the ways in which gender differences in one sphere influences the outcome in the other. A research grant from the Swedish Research Council provides me and colleagues (Katarina Boye, SOFI, Jenny Ahlberg, Örebro universitet and Christine Roman, Örebro universitet) with the opportunity to conduct a study focusing on parents expecting their first child. We want to learn more about how dual earner couples negotiate and decide about the division of paid and unpaid work and how these processes and outcomes differ across welfare regimes. This project called TransParent, is part of a cross-national collaboration, including Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Italy.

I am also studying how social policies influences parental leave taking and career opportunities after parental leave in Sweden, West Germany and the United States, together with Silke Aisenbrey (Yeshiva University, NY) and Daniela Grunow (University of Amsterdam). Our article "Is there a Career Penalty for Mothers' Time Out?" published in the 2009 December issue of Social Forces was among Top 20 nominees for the 2010, Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research.

I am affiliated with the Stockholm University Linnaeus Center on Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe (SPaDE) and I am an associate fellow of the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE) at Yale University.

I am a co-director of the Swedish Level of Living Survey 2010.

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