Pilar Gonalons-Pons is the Alber-Klingelhofer Presidential Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, with affiliations to Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, the Population Studies Center, and the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation (2021-2022). Her research examines how work, families, and public policies structure economic inequalities, with a particular focus on how inequalities change over time and over the life course. Much of her work is guided by the overall goal to develop a comprehensive understanding of the political economy and gendering of care and reproductive paid and unpaid work and its contribution to economic inequalities. A second important focus of her research is understanding gender culture, how it changes, and how it shapes family dynamics. Her work has appeared in the American Sociological Review, Demography, Social Problems, Population Development Review, and Socio-Economic Review. She became a member of the Steering Committee of the Carework Networks in 2019

Select Publications:

Gonalons-Pons, P. 2022. “Differentiated Egalitarianism: The Impact of Paid Family Leave Policy on Women’s and Men’s Paid and Unpaid Work.” Social Forces.

Gonalons-Pons, P. 2021. “Servants of Production. The Politics of Domestic Workers’ Labor Rights.” Social Politics