M. José González

She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political and Social Science at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (UPF, Barcelona), member of the SocioDemographics Research Group (DemoSoc), and the Centre of Gender Studies (CdGE) at UPF. In the past she worked in the Centre for Demographic Studies at the UAB in Barcelona (Spain), and was visiting scholar at the Department of Population Studies in ‘El Colegio de la Frontera Norte’ in Tijuana (Mexico), the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the UCSD (USA), and the Gender Institute at the LSE (UK). She has worked in different national and international research projects on family formation, child care, child poverty, fatherhood/motherhood, division of domestic labour and child care by gender, and social and gender inequalities.

Her research deals with stereotypes, prejudices and labour market discrimination of women with young children. She also participates in the transPARENT Network, which brings together national experts of gender relations and division of labour from different European countries to study how dual earner heterosexual couples negotiate and decide about the division of paid and unpaid work in the household, and how these processes and outcomes differ across countries and welfare regimes, and the IMPLICA Project - Promoting work-life balance from companies, which studies men’s participation in childcare and the promotion of work-life balance from companies.