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Sandrine Metzger
@metzgers.bsky.social
🇫🇷🇩🇪 Postdoctoral researcher, University of Vienna @univie.ac.at
Gender inequalities, Health, Family, and Life course research
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🚀 2-year Postdoc opportunity with me on older adults, digital technologies & wellbeing.

Flexible location/remote-friendly

Deadline 9 Oct, 13:00 CEST

Details & how to apply (both ITA/ENG):

www.stat.unipd.it/procedura-se...

#Postdoc #Ageing #Demography #DigitalInequality
September 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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PAPER ALERT🚨

With greats @cristinasuero.bsky.social and @fabriberna.bsky.social, we explore how the ed. gradient in the occurrence and timing of first motherhood varies across Spanish provinces (NUTS3).

#OA publication at Population, Space and Place: doi.org/10.1002/psp.70106

Want to know more?👇
Spatial Variation in the Educational Gradient of First Motherhood in Spain: Occurrence and Timing
Several studies have analyzed the relationship between educational attainment and fertility across countries, identifying significant differences. However, these works often overlook intra-country va....
doi.org
September 22, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods

Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
July 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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My first PhD article has been published!

🔎 It examines how the relationship between flexible working time arrangements and self-reported work-to-life and life-to-work conflict is moderated by an (un)equal domestic labor distribution within heterosexual couples.
#Published: "Flexible working time arrangements and work-life conflict: The role of gender and housework" by @olgaleshchenko.bsky.social & Susanne Strauß (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demography
July 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Who gets the privilege of free time? Across Europe, fathers enjoy more leisure time than mothers, especially in Southern and Eastern countries. New research across 13 countries shows persistent gender gaps in parental leisure. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
May 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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🆕📄Journal of Marriage and Family w/ M. Jacob📄

Parenthood in Europe: Not More Life Satisfaction, but More Meaning in Life

Previous research in soc was very focused on satisfaction & happiness.
BUT: many find meaning equally or more important than happiness.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
May 26, 2025 at 10:26 AM
New study from my PhD thesis—supervised by @pablogracia.bsky.social—out in Journal of Marriage and Family!

📝 It examines how changes in paid work and housework following birth shape first-time mothers’ and fathers’ mental health trajectories.

Read here (Open access): doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13121
<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
Objective This study examines the role of changes in paid work and housework time on first-time mothers' and fathers' mental health trajectories. Background The transition into parenthood is a key...
doi.org
May 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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🚨 New publication out!

Together with M.C. Compans and Eva Beaujouan @fertdem.bsky.social, we explore how late transitions to adulthood relate to the use and outcomes of assisted reproduction.
Curious? Have a look! 📄✨

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Delayed transitions to adulthood and assisted reproduction: A study of educational differences in Spain
Transitions to adulthood are increasingly delayed in low-fertility countries, particularly among highly educated women, with significant implications …
www.sciencedirect.com
May 5, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Data problems with the Hungarian EU-SILC, a tale for all researchers to look at histograms (of raw variables or composite indicators) before doing any analysis: www.valaszonline.hu/2025/04/11/r...
April 17, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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📢 We find that shifts in the gender imbalance in education promoted rising hypogamy and declining hypergamy. Yet, if the gender-education association had remained constant, educational expansion would have also led to changes in hypogamy and hypergamy.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Five Decades of Marital Sorting in France and the United States – The Role of Educational Expansion and the Changing Gender Imbalance in Education
Over the past half-century, higher education expansion and changing gender imbalances in education have reshaped the educational composition of the pa…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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📢 Our professor Nadia Steiber @nadiasteiber.bsky.social spoke with Stephanie H. Murray (The Atlantic) about hypogamy.

Find out more about Steiber's research project: "The Rise of Hypogamy and its Consequences for Family Life"
➡️ tinyurl.com/2s3ppvt5
In a shift, American women are now more likely to marry a less-educated man than men are to marry a less-educated woman. As one researcher told Stephanie H. Murray, “understanding the dynamics of these couples is key to understanding the future of marriage”:
The New ‘Marrying Down’
Women are now more likely to marry a less-educated man than men are to marry a less-educated woman.
www.theatlantic.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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🆕Conference"Gender Inequalities, Fertility & the Future of Family Demography:Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity” kicked off @mpidr.bsky.social!Researchers from around the🌏are engaging into discussions on how gender inequalities shape fertility, families, & demographic change. #GIF2025
March 19, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Team Steiber at the GIF Conference 19–21 March in Rostock

Team Steiber is represented at the conference “Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity”.
Further information can also be found on our website: t.ly/2X0AX
Team Steiber at the GIF Conference 19–21 March in Rostock
Team Steiber is represented at the conference “Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity”.
t.ly
March 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Can mothers leverage the structural resources of their occupation like autonomy to balance motherhood and work, especially in the absence paid leave?

My latest article in the Journal of Marriage and Family suggests so.
March 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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2nd position⬇️

📢The Vienna Institute of Demography is seeking a Postdoc to join Demography of Austria Research Group

📍 Location: Vienna, Austria
📅 Application Deadline: January 15, 2025

➡️https://oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/Jobs/VID/VID192PD124_.pdf
@oeaw.bsky.social
December 20, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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Strains of intensive parenting lower second birth risks:

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November 29, 2024 at 7:13 AM
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One more week to apply for this postdoc position to work with me at @unipd.bsky.social
Deadline: December 6, 1:00pm (CET)
📣JOB OFFER 📣 I am hiring a #postdoc to work with me on the project ‘Trajectories of #Isolation and #Health across the life course’
@unipd
Duration: 18 months (start by 1/4/25)
Salary: 27,000€ p.a.
Skills: Quant Methods, Scientific Writing
Apply by Dec. 6
More here: www.stat.unipd.it/bando-di-sel...
November 29, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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I am happy to share my paper about "Young adults' gendered trajectories of routine housework time when leaving home" that I did with @raabm.bsky.social in JMF (@ncfr.bsky.social). Please spread the word! doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
Objective To examine young adult women's and men's time use for routine housework when moving out of the parental household. Background From a life-course perspective, establishing an own househol...
doi.org
November 29, 2024 at 9:09 AM
Very happy to have passed my PhD Viva today! 🎉

Huge thank you to Alice Goisis and Jan Skopek for being such amazing examiners, and providing very helpful and insightful feedback!
Also a big thank you to my supervisor @pablogracia.bsky.social for his incredible support all throughout my PhD!
Congratulations Dr Sandrine Metzger @metzgers.bsky.social!! 🥳🎉🪇

Sandrine passed her viva today with an excellent PhD thesis on Parenthood, Gender, Life Course & Mental Health at the Dept. of Sociology of TCD!

Great panel!: Alice Goisis (external), Jan Skopek (internal) & Elaine Moriarty (chair)
November 29, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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Partner markets and completed fertility in East and West Germany, is the relation between education and completed fertility mediated by partner search outcomes? Super talk by @julialeesch.bsky.social
November 22, 2024 at 11:11 AM
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Happy to present at WIC2024 on the couple-level longitudinal approach of parental employment patterns in DE, 1990-2020. Findings show how relative resources within and between couples are associated with different employment and reproductive trajectories.
November 21, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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Austrian Socio-Economic Panel (ASEP) - Austria has started a long-term household panel survey like the GSOEP. The first wave of wave data is already available (here: aussda.at/en/news-deta...). A special feature of ASEP is that it is register(!!) based. This has two nice features, see below
New and exlusively available at AUSSDA: Austrian Socio-Economic Panel (ASEP) Data
We are pleased to announce that a new, Austria-wide survey programme is now available at AUSSDA.
aussda.at
November 18, 2024 at 11:14 PM