Caitlyn Collins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3582371 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caitlyn Collins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caitlyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9358-8151 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 621 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Book Reviewers for Volume 130
The Caregiving Gap: Who Feels Confident Caring for Children
Mothers still do more childcare per week than fathers. We call this the caregiving gap, a persistent source of gender inequality. Meanwhile, men's involvement in care boasts wide-ranging benefits for women, men, and children. Here, we focus on one important, understudied cultural dimension that shapes men's time spent in care: confidence. We apply unique data from The American Social Survey ( n = 1061) to weigh two theoretical arguments-gender so…
Practical Lessons for Conducting International Qualitative Fieldwork as a Graduate Student
Qualitative field research can be profoundly rewarding, but it is also a complex task with some unique challenges for early-career scholars. Compounding the problem is the frequent lack of honest conversations about the practicalities of this methodology. Acknowledging the abundant existing literature on qualitative epistemologies, theories, and study designs, we take a different tack in this article. We reflect on our experiences as former gradu…
Which Cases Do I Need?' Constructing Cases and Observations in Qualitative Research
This methodological review starts one step before Small's classic account of how many cases a scholar needs. We ask, 'Which cases do I need?' We argue that a core feature of most qualitative research is case construction, which we define as the delineation of a social category of inquiry. We outline how qualitative researchers construct cases and observations and discuss how these choices impact data collection, analysis, and argumentation. In pa…
Equal Partners? How Dual-Professional Couples Make Career, Relationship, and Family Decisions
Covid ‐19 and the role of gender, earnings, and telecommuting in parents' employment
Objective To understand how married mothers' and fathers' earnings and ability to telecommute structured their employment throughout the COVID‐19 pandemic. Background We weigh two competing explanations—rational choice and gendered resources—to evaluate the association between married parents' financial and workplace resources and sustained employment throughout the pandemic. Method We use hierarchical logistic regression models to analyze rotati…
Work-family justice: Its Meanings and Its Implementation
It's an incredibly important moment to focus on work-family scholarship – and to consider research related to 'just' work and care in unsettling and challenging times. Against this backdrop, the 2022 WFRN theme was established. The conference gathered members from around the world toward building impactful scholarship for practices and policy. In this Voices piece, we draw upon WFRN presidential panelists' voices. The first plenary, 'The Meanings…
Research Note: School Reopenings During the Covid-19 Pandemic and Implications for Gender and Racial Equity
In the fall of 2020, school districts across the country reopened under a variety of instructional modes. Some districts returned to in-person instruction and some operated remotely. Others reopened under hybrid models, wherein students alternated times, days, or weeks of in-person instruction. To capture this variation, we developed the Elementary School Operating Status (ESOS) database. ESOS provides data on elementary school districts' primary…
Do high childcare costs and low access to Head Start and childcare subsidies limit mothers' employment? A state-level analysis
Head Start and Families' Recovery From Economic Recession: Policy Recommendations for Covid ‐19
Objective This article examines whether the availability of Head Start during the Great Recession mitigated the impact of this crisis on poverty rates among families with young children. Background The first 2 decades of the 21st century have witnessed two major economic crises: the Great Recession and the COVID‐19 pandemic. Poverty rates among families with young children grew substantially during the Great Recession. Families with young childre…
Is Maternal Guilt a Cross-National Experience
The Gendered Politics of Pandemic Relief: Labor and Family Policies in Denmark, Germany, and the United States During Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified families' struggles to reconcile caregiving and employment, especially for working mothers. How have different countries reacted to these troubling circumstances? What policies have been implemented to alleviate the pernicious effects of the pandemic on gender and labor inequalities? We examine the policies offered in Denmark, Germany, and the United States, three countries that represent distinct welfare regim…
Shifting Inequalities? Parents' Sleep, Anxiety, and Calm during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Australia and the United States
This article examines traditional gender roles during the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout as an opportunity to evaluate shifting gender dynamics amidst rapid changes in employment and domestic demands for heterosexual couples with children in Australia and the United States. The authors argue that traditional gender roles were reinforced for U.S. parents but eroded for Australian parents
How do Gender Norms and Childcare Costs Affect Maternal Employment Across US States
In this article, we investigate how state-to-state differences in U.S. childcare costs and gender norms are associated with maternal employment. Although an abundance of research has examined factors that influence mothers' employment, few studies explore the interrelationship between maternal employment and culture, policy, and individual resources across U.S. states. Using a representative sample of women in the 2017 American Community Survey a…
The Gendered Consequences of a Weak Infrastructure of Care: School Reopening Plans and Parents' Employment During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended in-person public education across the United States, a critical infrastructure of care that parents-especially mothers-depend on to work. To understand the nature and magnitude of school closures across states, we collected detailed primary data-the Elementary School Operating Status database (ESOS)-to measure the percentage of school districts offering in-person, remote, and hybrid instruction models for element…
Covid‐19 and the gender gap in work hours
School and day care closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic have increased caregiving responsibilities for working parents. As a result, many have changed their work hours to meet these growing demands. In this study, we use panel data from the US Current Population Survey to examine changes in mothers' and fathers' work hours from February through April 2020, the period of time prior to the widespread COVID-19 outbreak in the United States and thr…
Who to Blame and How to Solve It: Mothers' Perceptions of Work-Family Conflict Across Western Policy Regimes
ObjectiveThis study compares mothers' perceptions of work-family conflict in four countries that exemplify different work-family policy approaches: Sweden, Germany, Italy, and the United States.BackgroundScholars have examined the impact of culture and work-family policy on mothers cross-nationally, primarily using quantitative methods. Thus, sociologists have a good understanding of both work-family policy structures and outcomes, but the interv…
Early Signs Indicate That Covid-19 Is Exacerbating Gender Inequality in the Labor Force
In this data visualization, the authors examine how the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis in the United States has affected labor force participation, unemployment, and work hours across gender and parental status. Using data from the Current Population Survey, the authors compare estimates between February and April 2020 to examine the period of time before the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States to the height of the first wave, when…
Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving
"The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress is constant. Social policies don't help. Of all Western industrialized countries, the United States ranks dead last for supportive work-family policies: No federal paid parental leave. The highest gender wage gap. No minimum standard for vacation and sick days. The highest maternal and child p…
Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving
Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving
The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress is constant. Social policies don't help. Of all Western industrialized countries, the United States ranks dead last for supportive work-family policies: No federal paid parental leave. The highest gender wage gap. No minimum standard for vacation and sick days. The highest maternal and child po…
The Balance Gap: Working Mothers and the Limits of the Law
Why do laws and policies on the books not always translate as intended on the ground? Political scientists, sociologists, legal scholars, lawyers, and policymakers alike grapple with this line of inquiry. There is consensus around a short answer: laws and policies do not operate in a cultural void. Instead, they intersect with prevailing cultural norms in complex ways. Understanding this interplay more clearly is key to designing laws and policie…
A Proposal for Public Sociology as Localized Intervention and Collective Enterprise: The Makings and Impact of Invisible in Austin
Altruistic Agencies and Compassionate Consumers: Moral Framing of Transnational Surrogacy
What makes a multimillion-dollar, transnational intimate industry possible when most people see it as exploitative? Using the newly emergent case of commercial surrogacy in India, this article extends the literature on stratified reproduction and intimate industries by examining how surrogacy persists and thrives despite its common portrayal as the 'rent-a-womb industry' and 'baby factory.' Using interview data with eight infertility specialists,…
Higher-status occupations and breast cancer: A life-course stress approach
Covid‐19 and the gender gap in work hours
School and day care closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic have increased caregiving responsibilities for working parents. As a result, many have changed their work hours to meet these growing demands. In this study, we use panel data from the US Current Population Survey to examine changes in mothers' and fathers' work hours from February through April 2020, the period of time prior to the widespread COVID-19 outbreak in the United States and thr…
Early Signs Indicate That Covid-19 Is Exacerbating Gender Inequality in the Labor Force
In this data visualization, the authors examine how the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis in the United States has affected labor force participation, unemployment, and work hours across gender and parental status. Using data from the Current Population Survey, the authors compare estimates between February and April 2020 to examine the period of time before the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States to the height of the first wave, when…
Is Maternal Guilt a Cross-National Experience
Altruistic Agencies and Compassionate Consumers: Moral Framing of Transnational Surrogacy
What makes a multimillion-dollar, transnational intimate industry possible when most people see it as exploitative? Using the newly emergent case of commercial surrogacy in India, this article extends the literature on stratified reproduction and intimate industries by examining how surrogacy persists and thrives despite its common portrayal as the 'rent-a-womb industry' and 'baby factory.' Using interview data with eight infertility specialists,…
Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving
The Gendered Consequences of a Weak Infrastructure of Care: School Reopening Plans and Parents' Employment During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended in-person public education across the United States, a critical infrastructure of care that parents-especially mothers-depend on to work. To understand the nature and magnitude of school closures across states, we collected detailed primary data-the Elementary School Operating Status database (ESOS)-to measure the percentage of school districts offering in-person, remote, and hybrid instruction models for element…
Shifting Inequalities? Parents' Sleep, Anxiety, and Calm during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Australia and the United States
This article examines traditional gender roles during the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout as an opportunity to evaluate shifting gender dynamics amidst rapid changes in employment and domestic demands for heterosexual couples with children in Australia and the United States. The authors argue that traditional gender roles were reinforced for U.S. parents but eroded for Australian parents
How do Gender Norms and Childcare Costs Affect Maternal Employment Across US States
In this article, we investigate how state-to-state differences in U.S. childcare costs and gender norms are associated with maternal employment. Although an abundance of research has examined factors that influence mothers' employment, few studies explore the interrelationship between maternal employment and culture, policy, and individual resources across U.S. states. Using a representative sample of women in the 2017 American Community Survey a…
Who to Blame and How to Solve It: Mothers' Perceptions of Work-Family Conflict Across Western Policy Regimes
ObjectiveThis study compares mothers' perceptions of work-family conflict in four countries that exemplify different work-family policy approaches: Sweden, Germany, Italy, and the United States.BackgroundScholars have examined the impact of culture and work-family policy on mothers cross-nationally, primarily using quantitative methods. Thus, sociologists have a good understanding of both work-family policy structures and outcomes, but the interv…
The Gendered Politics of Pandemic Relief: Labor and Family Policies in Denmark, Germany, and the United States During Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified families' struggles to reconcile caregiving and employment, especially for working mothers. How have different countries reacted to these troubling circumstances? What policies have been implemented to alleviate the pernicious effects of the pandemic on gender and labor inequalities? We examine the policies offered in Denmark, Germany, and the United States, three countries that represent distinct welfare regim…
Research Note: School Reopenings During the Covid-19 Pandemic and Implications for Gender and Racial Equity
In the fall of 2020, school districts across the country reopened under a variety of instructional modes. Some districts returned to in-person instruction and some operated remotely. Others reopened under hybrid models, wherein students alternated times, days, or weeks of in-person instruction. To capture this variation, we developed the Elementary School Operating Status (ESOS) database. ESOS provides data on elementary school districts' primary…
Which Cases Do I Need?' Constructing Cases and Observations in Qualitative Research
This methodological review starts one step before Small's classic account of how many cases a scholar needs. We ask, 'Which cases do I need?' We argue that a core feature of most qualitative research is case construction, which we define as the delineation of a social category of inquiry. We outline how qualitative researchers construct cases and observations and discuss how these choices impact data collection, analysis, and argumentation. In pa…
Do high childcare costs and low access to Head Start and childcare subsidies limit mothers' employment? A state-level analysis
Higher-status occupations and breast cancer: A life-course stress approach
Work-family justice: Its Meanings and Its Implementation
It's an incredibly important moment to focus on work-family scholarship – and to consider research related to 'just' work and care in unsettling and challenging times. Against this backdrop, the 2022 WFRN theme was established. The conference gathered members from around the world toward building impactful scholarship for practices and policy. In this Voices piece, we draw upon WFRN presidential panelists' voices. The first plenary, 'The Meanings…
A Proposal for Public Sociology as Localized Intervention and Collective Enterprise: The Makings and Impact of Invisible in Austin
Spatial and Temporal Arrangements, Parental Authority, and Young Adults' Postdivorce Experiences
This research examines how the structure of children's time and space impacts parent–child relationship dynamics postdivorce. Our central research question is whether parent–child relationship quality and degree of perceived parental authority are associated with the amount of time spent with a parent and the type and amount of personalized space a child has at parents' homes after a divorce. We analyze the reports of 22 adolescents surveyed and …
Higher-status occupations and breast cancer: A life-course stress approach
Altruistic Agencies and Compassionate Consumers: Moral Framing of Transnational Surrogacy
What makes a multimillion-dollar, transnational intimate industry possible when most people see it as exploitative? Using the newly emergent case of commercial surrogacy in India, this article extends the literature on stratified reproduction and intimate industries by examining how surrogacy persists and thrives despite its common portrayal as the 'rent-a-womb industry' and 'baby factory.' Using interview data with eight infertility specialists,…
A Proposal for Public Sociology as Localized Intervention and Collective Enterprise: The Makings and Impact of Invisible in Austin
The Balance Gap: Working Mothers and the Limits of the Law
Why do laws and policies on the books not always translate as intended on the ground? Political scientists, sociologists, legal scholars, lawyers, and policymakers alike grapple with this line of inquiry. There is consensus around a short answer: laws and policies do not operate in a cultural void. Instead, they intersect with prevailing cultural norms in complex ways. Understanding this interplay more clearly is key to designing laws and policie…
Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving
"The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress is constant. Social policies don't help. Of all Western industrialized countries, the United States ranks dead last for supportive work-family policies: No federal paid parental leave. The highest gender wage gap. No minimum standard for vacation and sick days. The highest maternal and child p…
Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving
Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving
The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress is constant. Social policies don't help. Of all Western industrialized countries, the United States ranks dead last for supportive work-family policies: No federal paid parental leave. The highest gender wage gap. No minimum standard for vacation and sick days. The highest maternal and child po…
Covid‐19 and the gender gap in work hours
School and day care closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic have increased caregiving responsibilities for working parents. As a result, many have changed their work hours to meet these growing demands. In this study, we use panel data from the US Current Population Survey to examine changes in mothers' and fathers' work hours from February through April 2020, the period of time prior to the widespread COVID-19 outbreak in the United States and thr…
Who to Blame and How to Solve It: Mothers' Perceptions of Work-Family Conflict Across Western Policy Regimes
ObjectiveThis study compares mothers' perceptions of work-family conflict in four countries that exemplify different work-family policy approaches: Sweden, Germany, Italy, and the United States.BackgroundScholars have examined the impact of culture and work-family policy on mothers cross-nationally, primarily using quantitative methods. Thus, sociologists have a good understanding of both work-family policy structures and outcomes, but the interv…
Early Signs Indicate That Covid-19 Is Exacerbating Gender Inequality in the Labor Force
In this data visualization, the authors examine how the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis in the United States has affected labor force participation, unemployment, and work hours across gender and parental status. Using data from the Current Population Survey, the authors compare estimates between February and April 2020 to examine the period of time before the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States to the height of the first wave, when…
Head Start and Families' Recovery From Economic Recession: Policy Recommendations for Covid ‐19
Objective This article examines whether the availability of Head Start during the Great Recession mitigated the impact of this crisis on poverty rates among families with young children. Background The first 2 decades of the 21st century have witnessed two major economic crises: the Great Recession and the COVID‐19 pandemic. Poverty rates among families with young children grew substantially during the Great Recession. Families with young childre…
Is Maternal Guilt a Cross-National Experience
The Gendered Politics of Pandemic Relief: Labor and Family Policies in Denmark, Germany, and the United States During Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified families' struggles to reconcile caregiving and employment, especially for working mothers. How have different countries reacted to these troubling circumstances? What policies have been implemented to alleviate the pernicious effects of the pandemic on gender and labor inequalities? We examine the policies offered in Denmark, Germany, and the United States, three countries that represent distinct welfare regim…
Shifting Inequalities? Parents' Sleep, Anxiety, and Calm during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Australia and the United States
This article examines traditional gender roles during the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout as an opportunity to evaluate shifting gender dynamics amidst rapid changes in employment and domestic demands for heterosexual couples with children in Australia and the United States. The authors argue that traditional gender roles were reinforced for U.S. parents but eroded for Australian parents
How do Gender Norms and Childcare Costs Affect Maternal Employment Across US States
In this article, we investigate how state-to-state differences in U.S. childcare costs and gender norms are associated with maternal employment. Although an abundance of research has examined factors that influence mothers' employment, few studies explore the interrelationship between maternal employment and culture, policy, and individual resources across U.S. states. Using a representative sample of women in the 2017 American Community Survey a…
The Gendered Consequences of a Weak Infrastructure of Care: School Reopening Plans and Parents' Employment During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended in-person public education across the United States, a critical infrastructure of care that parents-especially mothers-depend on to work. To understand the nature and magnitude of school closures across states, we collected detailed primary data-the Elementary School Operating Status database (ESOS)-to measure the percentage of school districts offering in-person, remote, and hybrid instruction models for element…
Research Note: School Reopenings During the Covid-19 Pandemic and Implications for Gender and Racial Equity
In the fall of 2020, school districts across the country reopened under a variety of instructional modes. Some districts returned to in-person instruction and some operated remotely. Others reopened under hybrid models, wherein students alternated times, days, or weeks of in-person instruction. To capture this variation, we developed the Elementary School Operating Status (ESOS) database. ESOS provides data on elementary school districts' primary…
Do high childcare costs and low access to Head Start and childcare subsidies limit mothers' employment? A state-level analysis
Covid ‐19 and the role of gender, earnings, and telecommuting in parents' employment
Objective To understand how married mothers' and fathers' earnings and ability to telecommute structured their employment throughout the COVID‐19 pandemic. Background We weigh two competing explanations—rational choice and gendered resources—to evaluate the association between married parents' financial and workplace resources and sustained employment throughout the pandemic. Method We use hierarchical logistic regression models to analyze rotati…
Work-family justice: Its Meanings and Its Implementation
It's an incredibly important moment to focus on work-family scholarship – and to consider research related to 'just' work and care in unsettling and challenging times. Against this backdrop, the 2022 WFRN theme was established. The conference gathered members from around the world toward building impactful scholarship for practices and policy. In this Voices piece, we draw upon WFRN presidential panelists' voices. The first plenary, 'The Meanings…
Which Cases Do I Need?' Constructing Cases and Observations in Qualitative Research
This methodological review starts one step before Small's classic account of how many cases a scholar needs. We ask, 'Which cases do I need?' We argue that a core feature of most qualitative research is case construction, which we define as the delineation of a social category of inquiry. We outline how qualitative researchers construct cases and observations and discuss how these choices impact data collection, analysis, and argumentation. In pa…
Equal Partners? How Dual-Professional Couples Make Career, Relationship, and Family Decisions
Book Reviewers for Volume 130
The Caregiving Gap: Who Feels Confident Caring for Children
Mothers still do more childcare per week than fathers. We call this the caregiving gap, a persistent source of gender inequality. Meanwhile, men's involvement in care boasts wide-ranging benefits for women, men, and children. Here, we focus on one important, understudied cultural dimension that shapes men's time spent in care: confidence. We apply unique data from The American Social Survey ( n = 1061) to weigh two theoretical arguments-gender so…
Psychology (19 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Pandemic (6 works)