Benita Combet
@benitacombet.bsky.social
Educational inequality & gender inequality in the labour market. Panel data & experiments.
she/her. 🏳️🌈
🏫: University of Bern, SNSF
🌏: www.benitacombet.net
she/her. 🏳️🌈
🏫: University of Bern, SNSF
🌏: www.benitacombet.net
Very happy to have won the Swiss Prize for Educational Research!
🎉 Congrats to Prof. Dr. Benita Combet! 🎉
She receives the Swiss Prize for Educational Research 2025 🏆 for her ESR article on gendered study choices. Her work advances understanding of how expectations shape educational pathways and promotes equal opportunities. ✨
@benitacombet.bsky.social
She receives the Swiss Prize for Educational Research 2025 🏆 for her ESR article on gendered study choices. Her work advances understanding of how expectations shape educational pathways and promotes equal opportunities. ✨
@benitacombet.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Very happy to have won the Swiss Prize for Educational Research!
Join my team in beautiful Berne! ☀️🏔️
🎓 Two PhD positions at the Institute of Sociology, University of Bern! Join our team (Chair of Social Change and Inequality, Ass. Prof. Dr. Benita Combet) to research career development inequalities by gender, ethnicity & social background. Apply by Nov 21.
More: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
More: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
October 31, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Join my team in beautiful Berne! ☀️🏔️
Follow us for news! 🔥
Welcome to the official Bluesky channel of the Institute of Sociology at the University of Bern! 🎓
Here we share insights into research, teaching, and institute life – and show what moves sociology in Bern. 🌎
Here we share insights into research, teaching, and institute life – and show what moves sociology in Bern. 🌎
October 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Follow us for news! 🔥
Reposted by Benita Combet
Welcome to the official Bluesky channel of the Institute of Sociology at the University of Bern! 🎓
Here we share insights into research, teaching, and institute life – and show what moves sociology in Bern. 🌎
Here we share insights into research, teaching, and institute life – and show what moves sociology in Bern. 🌎
October 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Welcome to the official Bluesky channel of the Institute of Sociology at the University of Bern! 🎓
Here we share insights into research, teaching, and institute life – and show what moves sociology in Bern. 🌎
Here we share insights into research, teaching, and institute life – and show what moves sociology in Bern. 🌎
New study alert, just out in SER! 🚨
What really drives gendered occupational choices among adolescents?
➡️It might not be workplace characteristics (e.g., salary), but skill requirements.
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
@sasemeeting.bsky.social, @snsf.ch, @unibe.ch ern.bsky.social, @unisg.ch
What really drives gendered occupational choices among adolescents?
➡️It might not be workplace characteristics (e.g., salary), but skill requirements.
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
@sasemeeting.bsky.social, @snsf.ch, @unibe.ch ern.bsky.social, @unisg.ch
June 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
New study alert, just out in SER! 🚨
What really drives gendered occupational choices among adolescents?
➡️It might not be workplace characteristics (e.g., salary), but skill requirements.
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
@sasemeeting.bsky.social, @snsf.ch, @unibe.ch ern.bsky.social, @unisg.ch
What really drives gendered occupational choices among adolescents?
➡️It might not be workplace characteristics (e.g., salary), but skill requirements.
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
@sasemeeting.bsky.social, @snsf.ch, @unibe.ch ern.bsky.social, @unisg.ch
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Happy to be at this great interdisciplinary conference on Gender Issues in Education & the Labor Market organized by @benitacombet.bsky.social in Zurich. Here @julehauf.bsky.social from @clic.bsky.social presenting fresh experimental results on how to increase men's interest in nursing
June 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Happy to be at this great interdisciplinary conference on Gender Issues in Education & the Labor Market organized by @benitacombet.bsky.social in Zurich. Here @julehauf.bsky.social from @clic.bsky.social presenting fresh experimental results on how to increase men's interest in nursing
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Not only acting as gatekeepers for scientific funding at NIH, NSF etc, but now trying to gate keep the entire scientific process.
Since this was published yesterday, NPR reports JAMA joins NEJM on the list of journals that confirms they’ve been sent threatening letters by Trump’s DOJ, ominously referencing their tax-exempt status in a bid to compel regime-friendly editorial choices.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
The Scary Implications of U.S. Government Attacks on Medical Journals
A Trump-aligned prosecutor’s attack on medical journals is a threat to your health care—and the medical establishment should not comply
www.scientificamerican.com
May 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Not only acting as gatekeepers for scientific funding at NIH, NSF etc, but now trying to gate keep the entire scientific process.
Reposted by Benita Combet
This great piece by @badnewshagen.bsky.social really gets into the sexism, racism, and eugenics that make up the very fabric of US pronatalist efforts. www.npr.org/2025/04/25/n...
They say they want Americans to have more babies. What's beneath the surface?
Pronatalists believe that modern culture has failed to adequately prioritize the value of nuclear families and making lots of babies. They see powerful potential allies in Elon Musk and JD Vance.
www.npr.org
April 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This great piece by @badnewshagen.bsky.social really gets into the sexism, racism, and eugenics that make up the very fabric of US pronatalist efforts. www.npr.org/2025/04/25/n...
Ever wondered whether women really hate programming that much or whether they just have such a huge preference for helping? Join, I’m presenting new work!
❗️ Tue, Apr 29, 13:45-15:15 CET
📍 A 231 and ZOOM
MZES Speaker Series
with @benitacombet.bsky.social
"Unpacking the People vs. Things Divide in Gendered Field of Study Choice"
👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...
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📍 A 231 and ZOOM
MZES Speaker Series
with @benitacombet.bsky.social
"Unpacking the People vs. Things Divide in Gendered Field of Study Choice"
👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...
1/2
Detail
www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de
April 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Ever wondered whether women really hate programming that much or whether they just have such a huge preference for helping? Join, I’m presenting new work!
💥💥💥Deadline is approaching fast!!! Apply if you’re interested in promotion inequality! Also open to adjacent disciplines! 💥💥💥
🚨 Open postdoctoral researcher position 🚨:
▪️ PhD in sociology, econ, organiz. psychology, etc.
▪️ 80%, 2-year position @unibern.
▪️ Main tasks: set up + manage Swiss employer-employee panel & doing research on careers in companies
▪️ More infos: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
▪️ PhD in sociology, econ, organiz. psychology, etc.
▪️ 80%, 2-year position @unibern.
▪️ Main tasks: set up + manage Swiss employer-employee panel & doing research on careers in companies
▪️ More infos: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
Uni Bern: Postdoctoral researcher in sociology or adjacent fields (e.g., economics, organizational psychology)
Institute of Sociology, University of Bern Start of employment: 01.07.2025 or by agreement Employment is for a fixed term of 2 years, with options to extend up to 4 years.
ohws.prospective.ch
April 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
💥💥💥Deadline is approaching fast!!! Apply if you’re interested in promotion inequality! Also open to adjacent disciplines! 💥💥💥
Reposted by Benita Combet
See information below for all precarious female academics at Max Planck Institutes in need of mentorship (confidential, of course)
⬇️
@ngawiss.bsky.social @nnwiss.bsky.social @netzwerkmawi.bsky.social
#Machtmissbrauch
#Hochschule
#Wissenschaft
#IchBinHanna
#IchBinReyhan
#Befristung
#Prekarisierung
⬇️
@ngawiss.bsky.social @nnwiss.bsky.social @netzwerkmawi.bsky.social
#Machtmissbrauch
#Hochschule
#Wissenschaft
#IchBinHanna
#IchBinReyhan
#Befristung
#Prekarisierung
Since 10 years I have been serving as a mentor for MinervaFemme-Net - a mentoring programme of the Max Planck Society that supports women. If you are in need of support / mentorship, contact the coordinator Anke Huebenthal (see: www.minerva-femmenet.mpg.de) and she will try to find a mentor for you!
I was lucky to have two supervisors at a Max Planck Institute in which I worked for a decade - first as a PhD student & then as PostDoc - who supported me, let me explore my own topics and were happy for me when I had my child. But I know that this was by no means standard
www.dw.com/en/uncovered...
www.dw.com/en/uncovered...
March 14, 2025 at 9:34 AM
See information below for all precarious female academics at Max Planck Institutes in need of mentorship (confidential, of course)
⬇️
@ngawiss.bsky.social @nnwiss.bsky.social @netzwerkmawi.bsky.social
#Machtmissbrauch
#Hochschule
#Wissenschaft
#IchBinHanna
#IchBinReyhan
#Befristung
#Prekarisierung
⬇️
@ngawiss.bsky.social @nnwiss.bsky.social @netzwerkmawi.bsky.social
#Machtmissbrauch
#Hochschule
#Wissenschaft
#IchBinHanna
#IchBinReyhan
#Befristung
#Prekarisierung
🚨 Open postdoctoral researcher position 🚨:
▪️ PhD in sociology, econ, organiz. psychology, etc.
▪️ 80%, 2-year position @unibern.
▪️ Main tasks: set up + manage Swiss employer-employee panel & doing research on careers in companies
▪️ More infos: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
▪️ PhD in sociology, econ, organiz. psychology, etc.
▪️ 80%, 2-year position @unibern.
▪️ Main tasks: set up + manage Swiss employer-employee panel & doing research on careers in companies
▪️ More infos: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
Uni Bern: Postdoctoral researcher in sociology or adjacent fields (e.g., economics, organizational psychology)
Institute of Sociology, University of Bern Start of employment: 01.07.2025 or by agreement Employment is for a fixed term of 2 years, with options to extend up to 4 years.
ohws.prospective.ch
March 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
🚨 Open postdoctoral researcher position 🚨:
▪️ PhD in sociology, econ, organiz. psychology, etc.
▪️ 80%, 2-year position @unibern.
▪️ Main tasks: set up + manage Swiss employer-employee panel & doing research on careers in companies
▪️ More infos: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
▪️ PhD in sociology, econ, organiz. psychology, etc.
▪️ 80%, 2-year position @unibern.
▪️ Main tasks: set up + manage Swiss employer-employee panel & doing research on careers in companies
▪️ More infos: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
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‼️ Hiring ‼️
Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich
📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years)
📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years)
Application deadline in early March.
Job ads & details:
tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk
We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions
Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich
📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years)
📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years)
Application deadline in early March.
Job ads & details:
tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk
We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions
January 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
‼️ Hiring ‼️
Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich
📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years)
📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years)
Application deadline in early March.
Job ads & details:
tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk
We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions
Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich
📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years)
📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years)
Application deadline in early March.
Job ads & details:
tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk
We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions
In these turbulent times (just, wtf?), I have some good news. 🥳☀️🌈
I’m very happy to announce that I'll be starting as an assistant professor (TT) at @unibern.bsky.social this February!!
It's been a long journey and I'm very grateful to everyone who has supported me along the way. 🤍
I’m very happy to announce that I'll be starting as an assistant professor (TT) at @unibern.bsky.social this February!!
It's been a long journey and I'm very grateful to everyone who has supported me along the way. 🤍
January 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
In these turbulent times (just, wtf?), I have some good news. 🥳☀️🌈
I’m very happy to announce that I'll be starting as an assistant professor (TT) at @unibern.bsky.social this February!!
It's been a long journey and I'm very grateful to everyone who has supported me along the way. 🤍
I’m very happy to announce that I'll be starting as an assistant professor (TT) at @unibern.bsky.social this February!!
It's been a long journey and I'm very grateful to everyone who has supported me along the way. 🤍
Reposted by Benita Combet
Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself."
Earlier that day:
Earlier that day:
January 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself."
Earlier that day:
Earlier that day:
Reposted by Benita Combet
In a new IZA WP (▶️ docs.iza.org/dp17411.pdf), @rlandersoe.bsky.social and I show that intergenerational income mobility and its underlying mechanisms vary strongly across parents’ income. We present 3 main findings:
1/4 #EconSky #SocSky
1/4 #EconSky #SocSky
November 19, 2024 at 9:56 AM
In a new IZA WP (▶️ docs.iza.org/dp17411.pdf), @rlandersoe.bsky.social and I show that intergenerational income mobility and its underlying mechanisms vary strongly across parents’ income. We present 3 main findings:
1/4 #EconSky #SocSky
1/4 #EconSky #SocSky
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Neue Studie: Atlantikströmung "auf Kippkurs".
Sie verleiht den jüngsten Berichten noch mehr Gewicht, die starke Warnungen formuliert haben, wie der OECD Climate Tipping Points Report 2022 und der Global Tipping Points Report 2023.
scilogs.spektrum.de/klimalounge/...
Sie verleiht den jüngsten Berichten noch mehr Gewicht, die starke Warnungen formuliert haben, wie der OECD Climate Tipping Points Report 2022 und der Global Tipping Points Report 2023.
scilogs.spektrum.de/klimalounge/...
Neue Studie legt nahe, dass die atlantische Umwälzzirkulation AMOC „auf Kippkurs ist“
Heute wurde in Science Advances eine neue Studie veröffentlicht. Der Titel sagt schon, worum es geht: „Physics-based early warning signal shows that AMOC is on tipping course.“ Die Studie folgt einer ...
scilogs.spektrum.de
February 10, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Neue Studie: Atlantikströmung "auf Kippkurs".
Sie verleiht den jüngsten Berichten noch mehr Gewicht, die starke Warnungen formuliert haben, wie der OECD Climate Tipping Points Report 2022 und der Global Tipping Points Report 2023.
scilogs.spektrum.de/klimalounge/...
Sie verleiht den jüngsten Berichten noch mehr Gewicht, die starke Warnungen formuliert haben, wie der OECD Climate Tipping Points Report 2022 und der Global Tipping Points Report 2023.
scilogs.spektrum.de/klimalounge/...
Reposted by Benita Combet
Probably the most chilling paper I read in 2023, yet essential reading for all of us. academic.oup.com/qje/advance-... #EconSky 📉📈
Violence Against Women at Work*
Abstract. In this paper, we link every police report in Finland to administrative data to identify violence between colleagues, and the economic consequences fo
academic.oup.com
November 26, 2023 at 11:45 AM
Probably the most chilling paper I read in 2023, yet essential reading for all of us. academic.oup.com/qje/advance-... #EconSky 📉📈
Reposted by Benita Combet
New blog on the problem of the continued proliferation of eugenic ideology in academia, including "national IQ" data.
(Part of) the solution is to prioritise research integrity, rather than the acquiring of grants, papers & profit (which current academic structures incentivise)
(Part of) the solution is to prioritise research integrity, rather than the acquiring of grants, papers & profit (which current academic structures incentivise)
The persistence of eugenics in mainstream journals highlights major gaps in research integrity
When published, bad data can have long lasting negative impacts on research and the wider world. In this post Rebecca Sear, traces the impact of the national IQ dataset and reflects how its continu…
t.co
November 24, 2023 at 12:16 PM
New blog on the problem of the continued proliferation of eugenic ideology in academia, including "national IQ" data.
(Part of) the solution is to prioritise research integrity, rather than the acquiring of grants, papers & profit (which current academic structures incentivise)
(Part of) the solution is to prioritise research integrity, rather than the acquiring of grants, papers & profit (which current academic structures incentivise)
I’m very happy to announce that I won the @snsf-ch.bsky.social Starting Grant! Starting in 2025, I’ll set up an employer-employee panel for Switzerland at @sociology-uzh.bsky.social. If you’re interested in a collaboration, send me a mail!
November 17, 2023 at 5:17 PM
I’m very happy to announce that I won the @snsf-ch.bsky.social Starting Grant! Starting in 2025, I’ll set up an employer-employee panel for Switzerland at @sociology-uzh.bsky.social. If you’re interested in a collaboration, send me a mail!
Reposted by Benita Combet
"The Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem" w/ Robert Schultz is now out in the JEP Here's the paper:
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
and the Twitter thread from Mar 2022 (aka before I was on Bsky - sorry!)
twitter.com/annastansbur...
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
and the Twitter thread from Mar 2022 (aka before I was on Bsky - sorry!)
twitter.com/annastansbur...
pubs.aeaweb.org
November 3, 2023 at 4:56 PM
"The Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem" w/ Robert Schultz is now out in the JEP Here's the paper:
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
and the Twitter thread from Mar 2022 (aka before I was on Bsky - sorry!)
twitter.com/annastansbur...
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
and the Twitter thread from Mar 2022 (aka before I was on Bsky - sorry!)
twitter.com/annastansbur...
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I could not be less surprised by this. I am a data point. I've watched so many (and I mean TOO MANY) of my women colleagues experience the same. Women networks in academia are so fragile because there's never a sense of security or permanence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Toxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobs
Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life balance. Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life...
www.nature.com
October 21, 2023 at 2:57 PM
I could not be less surprised by this. I am a data point. I've watched so many (and I mean TOO MANY) of my women colleagues experience the same. Women networks in academia are so fragile because there's never a sense of security or permanence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Women who perceive incident as unambiguously discrimination more likely to say they'd report it. Those who see incident as ambiguous more likely to say they'd lean in, change own behav.
One reason why subtle discrim so hard to root out?
Doering ^2 & Tilcsik sociologicalscience.com/articles-v10...
One reason why subtle discrim so hard to root out?
Doering ^2 & Tilcsik sociologicalscience.com/articles-v10...
sociologicalscience.com
October 12, 2023 at 2:58 AM
Women who perceive incident as unambiguously discrimination more likely to say they'd report it. Those who see incident as ambiguous more likely to say they'd lean in, change own behav.
One reason why subtle discrim so hard to root out?
Doering ^2 & Tilcsik sociologicalscience.com/articles-v10...
One reason why subtle discrim so hard to root out?
Doering ^2 & Tilcsik sociologicalscience.com/articles-v10...
Reposted by Benita Combet
Ich finde diese Grafik aus unserem Bericht zur Gleichstellung in Ost und West besonders eindrucksvoll, weil sie zeigt, dass in Haushalten beider Landesteile wirklich unterschiedliche Rollenmodelle gelebt werden. Das modernisierte male breadwinner model ist vor allem ein westdeutsches Phänomen.
October 4, 2023 at 6:56 AM
Ich finde diese Grafik aus unserem Bericht zur Gleichstellung in Ost und West besonders eindrucksvoll, weil sie zeigt, dass in Haushalten beider Landesteile wirklich unterschiedliche Rollenmodelle gelebt werden. Das modernisierte male breadwinner model ist vor allem ein westdeutsches Phänomen.
Reposted by Benita Combet
New Paper 🔔
We look at the contrasting meanings of merit that elites in the 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇰 deploy when justifying their success. Co-authored with @aaronsreeves @chellersgaard @antongrau
🧵 below…
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
We look at the contrasting meanings of merit that elites in the 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇰 deploy when justifying their success. Co-authored with @aaronsreeves @chellersgaard @antongrau
🧵 below…
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
The Meaning of Merit: Talent versus Hard Work Legitimacy
Abstract. Elites often use merit to explain, justify, and make sense of their advantaged positions. But what exactly do they mean by this? In this paper, we dra
academic.oup.com
October 2, 2023 at 9:15 AM
New Paper 🔔
We look at the contrasting meanings of merit that elites in the 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇰 deploy when justifying their success. Co-authored with @aaronsreeves @chellersgaard @antongrau
🧵 below…
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
We look at the contrasting meanings of merit that elites in the 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇰 deploy when justifying their success. Co-authored with @aaronsreeves @chellersgaard @antongrau
🧵 below…
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...