The Gender Gap in Field-of-Study Choice and Access to STEM Occupations

A lo largo de las últimas décadas, la brecha de género en educación ha pasado de favorecer a los hombres a inclinarse del lado de las mujeres.

Critiquing the wildly popular 1994 eugenicist book, which purported to link IQ and race, by reviewing the supposed genetic evidence.

My guest this week is Fabrizio Bernardi (@fabriberna.bsky.social), a Sociologist at UNED in Madrid who works on educational inequality, social mobility, and social demography. He’s also the editor at ...

Volume 54 - Article 38 | Pages 1251–1278

There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to...

Manuel T. Valdés, Nadia Steiber and Laura Zilian are project leaders for ‘Gendered STEM Pathways: The Role of Family in Women's Field Choice and Career Persistence’

Diseñado para estudiar y comprender los desafíos sociales de la desigualdad, primer máster de esta naturaleza en España

Mit dem neuen Förderprogramm Data:Research:Austria fördert die Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW) Forschungsvorhaben im Bereich der Register-/Mikrodatenforschung, bei denen Daten zur gr...

Comparative Migration Studies - This paper provides a cross-country analysis of anti-Muslim hate crimes in Europe, using ODHIR-OSCE data for 30 countries between 2016 and 2022. We systematically...

Call for Abstracts for the ECSR Thematic Conference Life Course and Social Stratification 23-24 April 2026, University of Trento, Italy The Life Course approach has gained powerful traction across th...

Although previous research has demonstrated socioeconomic differences in the distribution of food outlets, no study to date has examined these pattern…

This study presents a scoping review of the academic literature on hate crimes in Europe over the past decade. From an initial pool of 2536 studies, 76 met the inclusion criteria and were analyzed ...

Beyond Likes: The Role of Influencers in Promoting Views about Feminism and Anti-feminism in Spain - Volume 21 Issue 4

Abstract. This study examines the implications for gender equality of the increasing prevalence of heterosexual couples in which the woman is more highly e

This study investigates how social origin shapes second-chance educational trajectories among early school leavers in Spain. Specifically, we focus on…

This chapter examines the biological pathways through which prenatal maternal stress, triggered by natural disasters, affects maternal and foetal health. Key mechanisms include HPA axis dysregulation ...

Article: How Robust Are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility? | Sociological Science | Posted December 11, 2025