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    Work-life balance in Japan leans in one direction

    Work-life balance in Japan leans in one direction

    January 30, 2016

    The Japan Times | Opinion essay draws on findings of Mary Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology and Department Chair, and Eunmi Mun (Amherst College) in their article, "Between state and family: managers’ implementation and evaluation of parental leave policies in Japan."
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    Women, overshadowed

    Women, overshadowed

    February 16, 2016

    Harvard Gazette | Interview with Heather Sarsons, Ph.D. candidate in Economics on implications of, and the reactions to, her research—first featured in The New York Times—finding that female economists received less credit for co-authored work than their male counterparts.

    Women Working Longer

    Women Working Longer

    July 3, 2016

    Forbes | Covers new study and recent NBER conference organized by economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz, Women Working Longer. The conference explored the growing numbers of women working full-time into their sixties and seventies, and the family and financial implications of this change.
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    Michèle Lamont

    Women in Research: Interview with Michèle Lamont

    March 8, 2020
    Wiley | In recognition of International Women's Day, Wiley is celebrating the resounding impact women in research have had on the advancement of their disciplines. It sat down with Harvard's Michèle Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Sociology and African American Studies, to learn more about her story. Her top-cited article: "From ‘having’ to ‘being’: self‐worth and the current crisis of American society," published in the British Journal of Sociology (June 2019).
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    Women in Elite Jobs Face Stubborn Pay Gap

    Women in Elite Jobs Face Stubborn Pay Gap

    May 17, 2016

    Wall Street Journal | With insights from Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics. Article includes interactive data visualization showing pay gaps by occupation.

    With Trump in the Race, the Battleground is Everywhere

    With Trump in the Race, the Battleground is Everywhere

    June 21, 2016

    FiveThirtyEight | New research by political scientists Bernard Fraga (Ph.D '13) of Indiana University and Eitan Hersh of Yale University finds, surprisingly, that nearly the entire U.S. has experienced very close electoral contests in recent years. "For readers who take comfort in the stability in competition that has characterized recent presidential elections," writes Hersh, "gird yourself."
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    With "Gigs" Instead of Jobs, Workers Bear New Burdens

    With "Gigs" Instead of Jobs, Workers Bear New Burdens

    March 31, 2016

    The New York Times | Discusses implications of new research by Lawrence Katz (Elisabeth Allen Professor of Economics) and Alan Krueger (Princeton University) showing that proportion of American workers who don’t have traditional jobs — who instead work as independent contractors, through temporary services or on-call — has soared in the last decade. View the research.

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