Maaike van der Vleuten

Uit ons onderzoek, uitgevoerd samen met Daniël van Wijk en Aart Liefbroer, blijkt dat jonge mannen en vrouwen (15-29 jaar) sterker verschillen in hun opvattingen over gelijkheid in publieke genderrollen dan oudere mannen en vrouwen (30+). Zo zien jonge mannen minder voordelen van een gelijke genderverdeling in politieke en economische topfuncties dan jonge vrouwen, en zijn zij minder vaak voorstander van wetgeving die het aantal parlementaire zetels gelijk verdeelt tussen beide geslachten. Daarentegen zijn sekseverschillen in opvattingen over genderrollen in het gezinsleven kleiner en verschillen ze weinig tussen jongeren en ouderen. Vinden jonge mannen de groeiende rol van vrouwen in het publieke domein spannend, maar thuis wel prima?

Excited to share that two projects have received funding!The first has been funded by the Royal Swedish Acadamy of Sciences (KVA) (97,634 SEK, €8,500) to utilize register data for studying the work and family life of male couples and multiparent families. This project, in collaboration with Ylva Moberg, addresses topics that are both timely and significant, and I am very enthusiastic about exploring these important questions.The second is a project funded by the Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU) (922,209 SEK, €80,000) to study parenthood and the gender gap in health and sick leave, led by Ylva as the principal investigator. I’m excited to be part of this project and explore important questions about health and family dynamics.Exciting times ahead - looking forward to sharing insights as we move forward!

Do parents divide their parental leave more equally if the mother did not give birth? No! Ylva Moberg and I show a striking resemblance in how Swedish adoptive & biological parents divide the leave.

Kan speelgoed je studiekeuze kan beïnvloeden? In mijn optiek kan het kan een druppel zijn in een emmer van genderrolbevestigende gedragingen die kinderen meekrijgen, en die uiteindelijk hun studiekeuze beïnvloeden Meer weten? Lees het artikel "Spelend(er)wijs. De invloed van wetenschappelijk speelgoed" op de website van NEMO Kennislink. Interview door Judith Robbe. 

Together with dr. Ylva Moberg I obtained a grant (Riksbankens Jubileumsfonds; 4,949,000.00 SEK/€481.912 ) to study the division of labour in contemporary families after parenthood 

In school, girls in general outperform boys in math-related fields. But even when girls have a relatively higher ability in math, they more often choose other education trajectories. My study from puts a piece to the puzzle on why girls don’t seem to aim for the science and technology fields in their education and work careers.

I was interviewed by Kim van der Meulen for the magazine &C (the magazine Chantal Janzen) about the use(lessness) of gender reveal parties. 

Together with my colleague Ylva Moberg, I was interviewed for the BBC about why same-sex couples divide their tasks more equal than different sex couples across a diverse range of countries. 

This paper studies how male and female same-sex couples across countries organize their paid and household labor. Using unique data compiled from multiple national surveys in 7 western countries (N = 723), we examined same-sex couples’ paid and household task allocation and evaluate descriptively how this is associated with countries’ gender egalitarianism. For paid labor, results indicate that female same-sex couples spend less time in total on paid employment than male same-sex couples, but both male and female same-sex couples divide their hours of paid employment equally. For household labor, we find that female couples divide their household tasks more equally than male couples. Moreover, more gender egalitarian countries appear to be correlated to increasing differences between male and female same-sex couples’ total time spent on the labor market and to decreasing differences in how equal they divide their household labor. These findings suggest that larger, society-wide, gender regimes might be an important avenue for future research when studying same-sex couples paid and unpaid labor.