Identifying the causes of social inequality is crucial for designing effective policy interventions. Experimental methods, in which variables are manipulated and participants are randomly assigned to ...

Assistant Professor of Political ScienceThe Institute of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Leiden University is currently looking for at least two (2) assistant professors in Poli...

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The aim of this article is to critically evaluate the concept of caring masculinity/ies, a concept that has gained traction in critical studies on men and mascu...

We investigate the selection of subject fields in Germany’s “excellence initiative,” a two-phase funding scheme administered by the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 2005 to 2017 to increase inter...

We examine biologists in 38 countries leaving science in the past two decades. Starting an academic career is making one's first contribution to an academic journal, and leaving science is publishing...

Germany's climate movement is trying to regain momentum by building alliances with trade unions and aligning climate action with social justice.

The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University promotes the study of Europe's politics, history, culture, and society…

Which academics are more productive? The “sacred spark” theory predicts that some researchers are innately more productive than others, while the theory of cumulative advantage argues that small initi...

Growing attention to “degenderization” reforms that aim to encourage men's caregiving roles may generate opposition from groups advocating to prioritize mothers' right to care. This article seeks to ...