Naomi Lightman
naomilightman.bsky.social
Naomi Lightman
@naomilightman.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sociology @TorontoMet
Interested in social inequality, gender, care work, immigration and critical research methodology.
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🚨New Open-Access Publication!🚨

In "When Caring Comes at a Cost", @naomilightman.bsky.social and I explore the effects of paid and unpaid caring on wellbeing and examine whether social expenditure plays a role in shaping those effects.

Check it out paywall-free in JESP: tinyurl.com/2yptx6kj
When caring comes at a cost: Psychological wellbeing of unpaid and paid carers and the role of social expenditure - Naomi Lightman, Anthony Kevins, 2025
This study examines whether, and under what conditions, unpaid and paid care work are associated with reduced psychological wellbeing. The article begins by lay...
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July 7, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Canada's national child-care program has greatly advanced gender equality. Explore its many social benefits in Toronto Metropolitan University (@torontomet.bsky.social) professor @naomilightman.bsky.social article in @theconversationca.bsky.social here: bit.ly/3DyhG2q #InternationalWomensDay2025
Trudeau’s record may be spotty, but his biggest accomplishment was a national child-care program
Whoever replaces Justin Trudeau as prime minister must prioritize the further expansion of the his government’s child-care program in the years ahead.
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March 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
My new piece in @theconversation.com where I remind us to appreciate that we (finally!) have national childcare in Canada - and get ready to fight to protect it 💪

theconversation.com/trudeaus-rec...
Trudeau’s record may be spotty, but his biggest accomplishment was a national child-care program
Whoever replaces Justin Trudeau as prime minister must prioritize the further expansion of the his government’s child-care program in the years ahead.
theconversation.com
March 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
How do people share/promote their research without Twitter? Also I miss seeing what colleagues are up to.
March 7, 2024 at 1:43 PM
My recent piece in The Conversation on the financial penalties immigrant women experience for taking maternity leave

theconversation.com/immigrant-wo...
Immigrant women suffer financially for taking maternity leave: 4 ways Canada can improve
Research shows a classed and racialized divide among women caring for their children in Canada today. It’s a divide that is having a negative financial impact on immigrant women doing this work.
theconversation.com
March 6, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Absolutely terrifying. Speaks to so much more than simply removing a core course. Ideology over evidence 😩😭

www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/u...
Florida Eliminates Sociology as a Core Course at Its Universities
In December, Florida’s education commissioner wrote that “sociology has been hijacked by left-wing activists.”
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Doing my first independent reading course with a PhD student this semester. Any tips on how to best structure it??
January 8, 2024 at 1:02 PM