The COVID-19 pandemic was a stressful time for American adults. Indeed, rates of clinical depression and anxiety were 300% higher in the early days of the pandemic than they were the previous year.

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Misrepresentation continues to allow certain kinds of stories to be told about groups of people in ways that maintain and perpetuate dominant social hierarchies. For example, when we misrepresent ...

NHW & MM: In 1980, families headed by single mothers were five times as likely to be poor as two-parent families. Forty-five years later, single mothers were still almost five times as likely to have ...

Check out this NYT piece that discusses Allison Pugh’s new book and how some industries are trying to tie technology to care work or even outsourcing that work to AI. April 2, 2025 Check out this New ...

Jordyn is a first year PhD student in the Sociology Department at the University of Minnesota. Her interests lie on the perpetuation of gender inequality across intersecting dimensions of culture, ...