Cooke has been awarded significant funding to embark on new frontier research into gender inequalities.
Lynn Prince Cooke, Professor of Social Policy at the University, has been awarded a £1.5 million European Research Council consolidator grant for NEWFAMSTRAT, an innovative 5-year comparative research project to unravel how and why gender inequalities in paid and unpaid work persist in Finland, Germany, and the UK. The motivation for the research is that, despite the extraordinary economic gains women have made over the past half century, they remain responsible for most unpaid care work. In turn, women face employment disadvantages, persistent gender wage gaps, and greater risk of poverty. Through thousands of studies, the social sciences have accumulated some understanding of the individual, couple, and employer processes that account for this persistent gender inequality. NEWFAMSTRAT is the first research project to analyse the structure of inequalities among and between women and men at all three levels (individual, household, employer), and to compare these multi-level processes across countries with contrasting gender, labour market, and policy regimes. The goal is to locate pockets of progress toward greater equality that remain hidden when analysed with standard statistical techniques, as well as better understand withinand between-gender differences in the barriers to greater equality. To do so, researchers will use cutting-edge statistical techniques for analysing large-scale and 'big' data on individuals in households as well as employers, and collect primary data from field correspondence studies of employer hiring in each of the countries.
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