Ana Catalano Weeks
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 anacweeks.github.io
- 📄 And now with page numbers! Check out our research (w @leahruppanner.bsky.social) published in the Journal of Marriage and Family on how parents' domestic mental load is divided by gender, and how these patterns differ among single parents 👨👩👧 🤯 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- 🧠👩👦Household mental load: 71% on mums A new study reveals mums handle 71% of the 'invisible' thinking work at home, from meal planning to childcare. Dads focus more on occasional tasks like finances. Why does this mental load still divide by gender? 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jomf... #SciComm #Parenting 🧪
- Check out @malugatto.bsky.social's excellent & open access book on Resistance to Gender Quotas in Latin America! She traces men's strategic support & resistance to quota reforms across countries and over time using a wealth of evidence. 👏👏👇
- My book "Resistance to Gender Quotas in Latin America" is out, and it's *open access*! The book explores the puzzle of gender quotas—a policy to increase women's representation, adopted when men, who may be affected by these policies, are the majority of legislators. academic.oup.com/book/59749
- 🚨New working paper🚨 "Take a Load Off? Not for Mothers" Time & money help mothers offload physical household labor —but not the mental load. Cognitive labor is an “unbargainable burden.” w/ @helenkowalewska.bsky.social @leahruppanner.bsky.social 📄 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Feedback welcome!
- Great article by @aliciaandrz.bsky.social about serious problems pregnant students face in the US. Worth noting: in Brazil, academic mothers created Parent in Science to address similar concerns —a strong movement with real wins. www.parentinscience.com/english @caminfanger.bsky.social
- hi friends. please check out my new article with @chronicle.com about how the academy hates pregnant people (& what we can do about it): www.chronicle.com/article/what...
- Reposted by Ana Catalano WeeksMy sabbatical leave allowed me to reflect on my professional life. As I’ve stepped into more senior roles in academia (plus gotten a bit older), I often get asked: “How do you keep writing academic articles, policy work, opinion pieces, while juggling everything else?” My answer: skillpower 🧵
- Parents.com has a great new collection on the mental load, many of the articles drawing on my research with @leahruppanner.bsky.social -- including focus on single parents, same-sex couples, & thinking about childhood socialization. Check it out! www.parents.com/moving-beyon...
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- Looking forward to a super interesting political economy workshop this Friday @uniofbath.bsky.social thank you @eleala.bsky.social for inviting me! I will talk about ongoing research on femonationalist politics w @jmfernandes86.bsky.social & Bonnie Meguid. It is unfortunately very topical.
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- Loved working on this paper, learned so much from my 🌟co-authors! Check out what we found on party attention to gendered interests in IT, PT, & GR. Some key findings: 1) recession depressed attn to gender 2) far right parties increasingly focus on gender, including pro-natalism and parental consent.
- 📚 In our Collection on #Gender and #Sexuality When is gender on party agendas? #Greece, #Portugal, #Spain #OpenAccess article by @anacweeks.bsky.social @pcaravantes.bsky.social, @elombardo.bsky.social, A. Espírito-Santo, M. Stratigaki, & S. Gul here 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Ana Catalano Weeks📚 In our Collection on #Gender and #Sexuality When is gender on party agendas? #Greece, #Portugal, #Spain #OpenAccess article by @anacweeks.bsky.social @pcaravantes.bsky.social, @elombardo.bsky.social, A. Espírito-Santo, M. Stratigaki, & S. Gul here 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 🥁 New Article Collection! 📚 #Gender and #Sexuality in Southern Europe 1⃣2⃣ #FreeAccess Articles 🎯Introduction by @elombardo.bsky.social, Nicolò Conti & @bonniefield.bsky.social Read and download here ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/journals/fse...
- Reposted by Ana Catalano WeeksBreaking News: Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, was convicted of embezzlement, jeopardizing her plan to run for president in 2027.
- “Whether explicit or not, many politicians rest their policies on mothers accepting the ‘mental load’ – the list of caring and logistical tasks that underpin day to day life.” 👏 👏 @stellacreasy.bsky.social How can we change it? We could start with policies that support fathers to be more involved.
- Reposted by Ana Catalano WeeksTake a look at the new @sespjournal.bsky.social collection of articles on Gender & Sexuality in Southern Europe. There are 12 articles open or free access. Introduced by @elombardo.bsky.social, with articles on Turkey, Spain, Greece, Portugal & Italy. More to come www.tandfonline.com/journals/fse...
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- Reposted by Ana Catalano WeeksWe’re beyond thrilled to launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy If you’re a fellow political economist annoyed by all-male rooms & gendered comments— join us & share! 🗓️ 22-25 Sept, 2025 in Cologne 🚨 Apply by 25 Apr, 2025 www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025...
- *Call for Applications* We’re excited to announce the Second Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy! Link to the conference website: www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025... Please share widely! @mpifg.bsky.social @palmapolyak.bsky.social
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- We would like to invite you to join the @uniofbath.bsky.social hybrid workshop on gender, parenthood and academic careers, organized by the Departments of Politics and International Studies and Economics. Link to join online in comments, and some in-person spaces available! Thursday, March 27
- Delighted to see our article here in great company. Check out the whole collection of articles on gender and sexuality published in South European Society and Politics @sespjournal.bsky.social since 2021 w reflection by @elombardo.bsky.social 👇! 💡
- 🥁 New Article Collection! 📚 #Gender and #Sexuality in Southern Europe 1⃣2⃣ #FreeAccess Articles 🎯Introduction by @elombardo.bsky.social, Nicolò Conti & @bonniefield.bsky.social Read and download here ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/journals/fse...
- Reposted by Ana Catalano WeeksHappy 8th March week 💜 with readings from the new article collection on Gender and Sexuality in Southern Europe of @sespjournal.bsky.social ! Thanks @bonniefield.bsky.social @NicoContiSESP for inviting me to contribute with a short introduction t.co/bfBNJB2FnM
- Very interesting new research on quotas in Morocco. 👇 Even in a context w relatively conservative gender norms, women elected via quotas are not seen as less competent. We often see this assumption that quotas reduce quality in the media or from political elites & here more evidence refutes it.
- ♀️Do citizens evaluate quota and non-quota politicians similarly? ➡️Using a vignette experiment in Morocco, @cbarns.bsky.social A. Blackman @shalaby12.bsky.social find no evidence that quota-elected women are viewed as less competent than other politicians www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
- Great to see our research @leahruppanner.bsky.social cited in @theguardian.com today! @chloehamilton.bsky.social very cool experiment. "if long-term change is the objective, talking about it with your partner isn’t just recommended, it is essential" 👏 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
- Reposted by Ana Catalano WeeksHow should we study party polarization in Europe? Happy to share that our paper on *multidimensional* polarization is now out @bjpols.bsky.social! (more 👇)
- Reposted by Ana Catalano WeeksColorado's Rep Brittany Pettersen (D) flew cross-country with her one-month-old to vote against the GOP budget tonight. Dems ended up one vote short. Pettersen was part of an unsuccessful bipartisan push to allow new mothers to vote remotely. #copolitics
- How does the “mental load” of taking care of family and household influence decisions about participating in public life? In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w @annanhelgoy.bsky.social we use a survey experiment priming domestic mental load to find out. doi.org/10.1017/S000... 🧵 1/9
- I am one of over 900 political scientists who signed this statement to express our "urgent concern about threats to the basic design of American government and democracy." drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2... Political scientists, you can sign here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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- Reposted by Ana Catalano WeeksDo citizens stereotype Muslims as inherently homophobic? In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w/ @bertous.bsky.social & @michaelhunklinger.bsky.social we answer this question using a double-list experiment across 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 doi.org/10.1017/S000... Spoiler: Yes. 🧵
- Reposted by Ana Catalano WeeksSomeone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.
- Reposted by Ana Catalano WeeksWe at @worldpolitics.bsky.social mourn the loss of brilliant scholar and editorial board member, Mala Htun. Read about her career and commitment to her students and university here www.abqjournal.com/news/article...
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- Now with page numbers! Don't miss @rosieshorrocks.bsky.social 's excellent book on gender differences in political attitudes and how they influence party voting in Western democracies.
- Reposted by Ana Catalano Weeks‼️ Hiring‼️ One postdoctoral position in my ERC Consolidator in Madrid. Application deadline: end of February. Job ad & details: tinyurl.com/3dwm96kb Come and join me and my team in sunny Madrid for 5 years of intensive research and lots of publications, traveling, and fun! Please share widely.
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- Reposted by Ana Catalano WeeksStudies find mothers carry 71% of the mental load and a causal link between mental load and women's participation in public life. This load "takes up more space in their minds & crowds out the ability or desire to take on additional responsibility at work. fortune.com/2024/12/20/w...
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- A nice article bringing the neuroscience perspective to our research on gender divisions in the mental load 🤯 By the way, does anyone know if it is more or less true that we can typically remember 7 things at a time? Ref: Miller 1956. www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-...
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- I wrote a blog about our @leahruppanner.bsky.social new paper on gender divisions in daily vs episodic domestic mental load -- check it out below! Ours is the first quantitative study of different dimensions of cognitive household labor on a large sample (N=3000) representative of US parents.
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- Reposted by Ana Catalano Weeks🧠👩👦Household mental load: 71% on mums A new study reveals mums handle 71% of the 'invisible' thinking work at home, from meal planning to childcare. Dads focus more on occasional tasks like finances. Why does this mental load still divide by gender? 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jomf... #SciComm #Parenting 🧪
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