@anacweeks
Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Bath, author of Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy bit.ly/3wzcTGM. Editor, LSQ. gender quotas, parties, gender & far right, mental load #academicmama https://anacweeks.github.io/
pitch for a tall ask:
APSA has unheard-of demand for its grants & fellowships due to funding cuts. More apps = more reviewers needed. We all know burnout is high. Reviewing so someone CAN go do the work & maybe be why they stay in the profession? Worth it - volunteer
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📢 in our #NewIssue (30.4)
The study by @anacweeks.bsky.social, @pcaravantes.bsky.social Espírito-Santo, @elombardo.bsky.social Stratigaki & Gul examines backsliding on #GenderEquality as an indicator of democratic decay
🔓#OpenAccess 👇https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13608746.2024.2412746
📢NEW PUBLICATION:
Do you think work-family challenges are limited to advanced economies, where many women work in the formal sector? Our review article disagrees (w @aysegulkayaoglu.bsky.social ).
doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...
Study co-authored with Bonnie Meguid & @jmfernandes86.bsky.social
If you’re nearby, it would be great to see you there!
Also: I’ll be in Florence with my 11-year-old :) recommendations very welcome! 🍦
Next Mon (23rd) I’m presenting new research on “Femonationalist Politics” at the Gender Working Group, EUI. 🙏 for the invite!
www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
We find femonationalist rhetoric makes nativist parties seem ⬆️ socially acceptable & ⬇️ extreme, though effects on overall support are modest.
Difference in time use between working parents of small children vs working non parents. Areas above zero are activities parents do more of; areas below are what they give up. Compiled by analyzing the Census Bureau’s American Time Use Survey. Analysis and chart by Aziz Sunderji, https://homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-parents-find-the-time
Where do parents find the time to parent? Less sleep, work and screens.
Amazing chart feat. in @alphaville.ft.com Further Reading.
homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-p...
Hi Maximo, I would start here with @mlkrook.bsky.social ‘s book academic.oup.com/book/8767
There’s also the QAROT data www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/pr...
Gender Quota Laws and Women in Cabinets 36 Pages Posted: 16 Dec 2024 Last revised: 11 Feb 2026 Tiffany Barnes University of Texas at Austin Giulia Venturini University of Strathclyde Ana Weeks University of Bath Date Written: December 06, 2024 Abstract Do legislative gender quotas increase women’s presence in cabinets? Women remain underrepresented in political leadership worldwide. As a remedy, over 80 countries have adopted gender quotas, requiring parties to nominate or elect a minimum share of women. But can quotas have effects beyond the positions they directly target? We argue that quotas increase the presence of women in executive cabinets by expanding the pool of experienced female legislators. Using a global dataset (168 countries) from 1990 to 2021, we find gender quotas increase the share of women ministers by 15 percent relative to the average baseline–including increases in both high- and lowprestige portfolios. Consistent with a supply-side mechanism, effects are largest in parliamentary democracies—where ministers are often selected from parliament—and in countries that experienced the greatest increases in women’s legislative representation post-quota. The findings suggest quotas can generate meaningful spillover effects at the highest levels of government.
“I am delighted to conditionally accept your article for publication in The Journal of Politics.”
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We find that gender quota laws for legislatures also increase the share of women in cabinets.
w @gventurini.bsky.social @tiffanydbarnes.bsky.social
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Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan.
Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”
ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement.
"I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish.
Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature.
Minneapolis, MN
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
So all colleges and universities will bring back the DEI stuff they cut when obeying in advance right...............................................................................................................................................right?
Portugal is having a presidential election tomorrow (Sunday).
It is a fairly unusual one, which is representative of how much the political landscape has changed in the country.
Here is some quick context about it, in case that is of interest:
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'The truth is Musk and the tech sector simply do not prioritise safety or dignity in the products they create' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
. @peterallen.bsky.social and I wrote about this approach to politics - an excited, fan-like focus on Westminster gossip, to the exclusion of the material impact of political decision - in our paper “‘Huge fan of the drama’: Politics as an object of fandom” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Oh very interesting! Clearly it has caught on again.
… is psychodrama a real word? Is this a new Britishism i was not aware of. It’s been bothering me all day. Now everyone is saying it.
😬 Good to have awareness at least !
We talk about this here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... could be people are over-reporting. Could be work is duplicated. Important difference bw mental and physical work bc you don’t wash the dishes twice but you can both feel responsible for finances!
How do you measure the domestic mental load? 🧐
And how does your experience stack up against our research of 3,000 US parents?
I created a quiz using the same approach we use in peer-reviewed sociological research so you can find out!
Hope this sparks some conversations 💡
tally.so/r/447Xxk
Hi friends, anyone on instagram in professional capacity? I’m at @anacweeksphd and would love to follow folks there too!
On day 8 of our Administration, @governor.ny.gov and I announced the beginning of universal childcare in NYC. No longer will New Yorkers be forced to choose between starting a family and continuing to live in the city they love. This only happened because of you.
📣📣📣 GREAT, time-sensitive opportunity for senior/mid-career scholars to join us in Madrid at UC3M´s social sciences department (UC3M-ATRAE Program 2026) on an attractive pay+research funds package 📣📣📣
This does NOT happen everyday.
THREAD below if this is of interest 1/n
Congress requires DOD to facilitate Scouts activities but the Secretary can ignore the law in cases where it is “detrimental to national security." Hegseth is preparing to do so because the scouts have become too inclusive of girls.
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
Apropos of nothing (lol jk) I encourage everyone to follow the great work that @johannarickne.bsky.social, @ollefolke.bsky.social & Rune Vammen Lesner are doing on sexual harassment and women's careers.
academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...
www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
A woman reported that Ronaldo assaulted her in Vegas in 2009. "In recent months, Ronaldo has also been part of diplomatic efforts to woo the U.S. President Donald Trump."
🏆 Nominations for the APSA 2026 Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha (best paper) Award are open!
If you saw (or presented!) an excellent paper at APSA 2025 please use the submission portal to nominate it: apsa.secure-platform.com/a/organizati...
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When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Great to see that the European Parliament voted to allow proxy voting for pregnant women and new mothers (pending approval by member states).
Now, why not extend the same rights to new fathers?
Otherwise, the assumption is again that mother = default parent.
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
