I’m writing a book for the next few months, and putting less of the original content I’m (still!) generating on the blog, for now. To help pass the time, I figured I’d post periodic link roundups of things I read and shared or discussed briefly elsewhere (mostly at @familyunequal on Twitter). Feel free to share your own suggestions or comments below.
- My paper on infant mortality and maternal age by race came out in Sociological Science — the open-access journal of excellent sociology.
- Obama’s new rule on private-sector salary reporting, which Heidi Hartmann calls “definite progress.” I previously argued for making private-sector EEO1 reports public to help harness market pressure for equitable practices, something like this mocked up report card, which we could hang in employers’ windows:
- A great Daily Show segment on a gay couple in which one man adopted the other, back before their marriage was legal. Now they want to annul the adoption and get married. Hilarity ensues — and makes for a successful sociology of the family lesson on defining families.
- Paula England’s 2015 American Sociological Association presidential address is out in the journal American Sociological Review, “Sometimes the Social Becomes Personal: Gender, Class, and Sexualities.”
- Hillary Clinton Goes Back to the Dunning School — Ta-nehisi Coates on Hillary Clinton’s bad history of Reconstruction and what came after.
- Matt Bruenig asks why policies to reduce poverty (think Bernie) are treated as race-neutral (and therefore not good) by anti-racists, while police reform policies are taken as action for racial justice. Both indirectly address racial disparities.
- Colleen Flaherty at Inside Higher Ed writes on a new study of the distribution of gay and lesbian workers across occupations. Academia, including sociology specifically, ranks high in presence of gay and lesbian workers. (With speculation from me.)
- Rich man 30 years older than his wife secretly divorced her to protect his assets. Giving new meaning to the concept of the black box of family decision making (and its implications for gender).
- “Poverty talk: how people experiencing poverty deny their poverty and why they blame ‘the poor’,” by Tracy Shildrick and Robert MacDonald in Sociology Review.
- The moving moment when a woman at an Iowa town hall meeting told Bernie Sanders (and everyone else) about living as a divorced person with a disability and trying to make ends meet. Also the woman (and others) living with no heat during D.C.’s Snowzilla storm.
- Informative 5-minute video describing a cross-national analysis of how family policies affect poverty rates for single-parent families, by Laurie C Maldonado and Rense Nieuwenhuis. “The good news is we know what works.”
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