Marie Evertsson
Assistant professor 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. We welcome other countries to join.

In addition, I am working in a project on gender differences in career opportunities after parental leave in Sweden together with Ann-Zofie Duvander (Stockholm University Demography Unit). A three country comparison of work related consequences of career brakes for women in Sweden, West Germany and the U.S., with Silke Aisenbrey (Yeshiva University, NY) and Daniela Grunow (University of Amsterdam) was recently published in Social Forces. Together with Richard Breen (CIQLE, Yale University), I am studying changes in work commitment among recent mothers.

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