Sarah Damaske

@SarahDamaske

Sociologist & Associate Professor of Labor at Penn State. Author of For the Family? How Class and Gender Shape Women's Work (Oxford).

State College, PA
Joined September 2011

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    8 Jun 2016

    Dr. A Frech & I argue: "Stable full-time employment is an accrued advantage... to which not all women have access."

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  2. Retweeted
    16 hours ago

    🙌🏼🎉💞🙋‍♂️ yes to this! Policies like these are (finally!!) catching up with cultural realities: dads caregive, too. They’re also a powerful visual symbol of what’s expected of men—built into the architecture of public space. You change diapers, too.

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  3. Retweeted
    19 hours ago

    Yes, policy matters & can contribute enormously to cultural & personal change. Paid parental leave policies that are non-transferable to the other parent are especially powerful change agents.

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    12 hours ago

    This is categorically not true- not only at R1, where searches get delayed and “fail” and second round visitors (all equally stellar) get brought in- but also at R2s & lib arts colleges, where timelines may be different or last minute replacement hires (visiting etc) come later.

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  5. Retweeted
    16 hours ago

    Why we should acknowledge academic bravery (opinion)

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  6. Retweeted
    24 hours ago

    Felt this deserved a retweet in the New Year - such an important issue! We need a) more proactive collective planning about how we handle online harassment against colleagues and b) action to support those who are being targeted.

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  7. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    Childcare cost and availability are barriers to mother's employment. We should look to others, here Quebec, for guidance forward

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    Jan 3

    If having data on childcare costs by county would be helpful for your work or research, please take a minute to comment on how it would be useful to you. We are requesting approval for a new national data collection that we'll make available to the public.

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  9. Jan 3

    Great piece on the rising number of unionized strikes with great quotes from and sociologist Ruth Milkman.

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  10. Jan 3

    I ended up having to make a “special case” for why I couldn’t teach that evening, because I literally had no one to take care of my kid (and she was pretty little—maybe six months...). We had to re-list it. And I was pre tenure. It was stressful. Evening classes are tricky.

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  11. Jan 3

    Such an important topic. I remember the first time my class got listed for an evening on a night when my husband was also working and it went live to students before I even knew it was being offered then. I didn’t have a reliable sitter at the time (and we live far from family).

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  12. Jan 3

    Or perhaps labor market advantages to their husbands if they end up teaching them English once they have learned it? Or for their children if they end up learning enough to help their kids navigate the school system better? There are so many fascinating implications!

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  13. Jan 3

    By the way, , I am re-reading your article (because it's so darn fascinating) and I am curious if you are going to do any follow up interviews with your participants! I am wondering if the women's human capital ends up giving them later job market advantages?

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  14. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    I wrote a short essay on the TRUTH Forum we organized in Merced that you might find useful for anti-poli-migra efforts in your community.

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  15. Jan 3

    Important article by on Syrian refugees & how they negotiate the realities of the US labor market and their expectations of the gender division of paid and unpaid work. Most of the men rush back to work, but the women end up gaining more human capital.

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  16. Jan 2

    Great thread raises important questions for to think about for upcoming conference deadline. Many have conflicts this time of year. Teaching obligations also may burden those at schools with higher loads or students who are doing both.

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  17. Retweeted
    Jan 1

    Yep...and you know how to confront it? With aggressive and generous work-family policies like paid parental leave.

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  18. Jan 1

    Important article. I would add that we often fail to see the importance of work-family policies, because we think of them as “mother’s” issues, rather than economic concerns that impact entire families.

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  19. 31 Dec 2018

    I love this. It does make me feel hopeful for the best of what sociology can be. Thanks for sharing. It’s what I hope we all should strive for.

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    This is his first comment on the death of the two young children.

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  21. Retweeted
    29 Dec 2018

    What I really want to say is too inappropriate to say, even on twitter, so all I will say is this: SEEKING ASYLUM IS NOT ILLEGAL. I’m absolutely outraged and disgusted. Also, if you’re not speaking out about this, you’re part of the problem.

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