Pilar Gonalons-Pons

Prof @SociologyatPenn. Feminist studying gender, families, inequality, and social policy. She/her. The nuclear family is radioactive ⚠️⚠️

[Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pilargonalons]

Saying bye bye to this site by sharing my last @ASR_Journal pub, w amazing colab @mioana! We show that privatized childcare services play a direct role creating family income inequality in the US, bc unaffordable childcare hurts lower income families most https://t.co/LdIdBjTbeE

[Better Life Lab @BetterLifeLab]

The child care affordability crisis is an equity issue!

New research: Market-priced childcare makes income gaps worse by 34% - study finds costs increase post-birth earnings losses for non-college educated moms, not college grads.
https://t.co/j6F9dnVoHe

[Olivia Y. Hu @oliviayhu]

I HAVE EXCITING NEWS!!! My first solo pub is out in @ERSjournal! In it, I examine how East Asian women in relationships w White, Black, and South or Southeast Asian men understand the role of their unions in shaping their racial ideologies #soctwitter https://t.co/wE0Vn3dwA3

[Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pilargonalons]

@DorothyERoberts 👏👏👏

[Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pilargonalons]

@EProtasiuk Thanks for sharing!

[Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pilargonalons]

@KatieAlbitz @PGonalon Thank you! See you over there!

[Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pilargonalons]

My hope is for this research to help inform the movement to push for the high-quality, publicly funded, and well-paid #universalchildcare that children, childcare teachers, and parents deserve.

[Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pilargonalons]

This hypothesis is inspired by the socialist feminist tradition of social reproduction theory, which highlights the centrality of the social organization of care and reproductive work for structuring social inequality.

[Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pilargonalons]

This paper has been in my mind for many years, it is emotional to see it in print. My core motivation has been to test the hypothesis that privatized care services generate class inequalities, in addition to generating gender inequalities as we already know.

[Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pilargonalons]

We estimate that childcare costs exacerbate family income inequality between the two groups by 34 percentage points. We show that most of this inequality is largely driven by childcare costs hurting lower-income women's employment.

[Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pilargonalons]

Here's one key finding. It shows that having children has a negative impact on family income and that childcare costs exacerbate this "birth penalty" for women wo college but not for women w college. As childcare prices go up, inequality between the two groups increases ⬆️

[Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pilargonalons]

Saying bye bye to this site by sharing my last @ASR_Journal pub, w amazing colab @mioana! We show that privatized childcare services play a direct role creating family income inequality in the US, bc unaffordable childcare hurts lower income families most https://t.co/LdIdBjTbeE

[Feminist City @feminiscity]

“A Quick Guided Tour round Marxist-Feminist Theory” by Michelle Barrett and Cynthia Cockburn (1981) 😍😍😍

[Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pilargonalons]

@alybatt Can't wait for the book to be out! yay!

[Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt]

Tomorrow in Stockholm!

[Sasmira Matta @SasmiraM]

New work with @ChatterjeePaula and Atheendar Venkataramani from @OppforHealthLab. @Wharton @PennLDI

[Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pilargonalons]

@atheendar @SasmiraM @ChatterjeePaula Thank you for sharing, Atheen!

[Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pilargonalons]

Only a few prints left! This is a one-of-a-kind absolutely gorgeous and inspiring print! And we all need some inspiration these days <3

[Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pilargonalons]

New pub w a dream team! Home-based long-term care (HCBS) is one of the fastest growing industries but it creates some of the lowest paying jobs. We analyzed whether increases in Medicaid spending in HCBS improved wages. Answer: no, it doesn't. These workers deserve higher pay!

[Population Aging Research Center at Penn @PennPARC]

New @HSR_HRET Article:

Increasing Expenditures on Home- and Community-Based Services: Do Home Care Workers Benefit?

Katherine E. M. Miller, Norma B. Coe (@nbcoe1), Amanda R. Kreider, @allisonkhoffman, Katherine Rhode, @pilargonalons
https://t.co/fgJgI0fHFy

[Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi]

In non-election news, my co-author (@annadaniellefox) and I have a paper out in @Gend_Soc!

It's called "Walking the Orientalism Tightrope: How Muslim Americans Construct their Gender Ideologies"

https://t.co/I8uDMtJO44

In it we argue...🧵