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Caitlin Schmid

Caitlin Schmid

  • Research fellows

Research Fellow

Research subject areas

  • Gender equality (SDG 5)
  • Women
  • Policy

Biography

Caitlin Schmid is a Research Fellow working on projects related to GIWL’s research streams Gender Equality at Work, and Gender and Data. She has conducted research into the development of a UK sub-national gender equality index, and collaborated on the gender pay gap reporting project ‘Bridging the gap? An analysis of gender pay gap reporting in six countries’, funded by the UN Foundation.

Caitlin is concluding her PhD in Sociology at the University of Manchester, funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council with an Advanced Quantitative Methods stipend. Her doctoral research examines the construction and policy uses of gender equality indices, with a particular interest in measurements of unpaid work. She completed her MSc in Sociology: Comparative Organisation and Labour Studies at the University of Amsterdam and was awarded the 2017 National Prize for Best Social Science Master Thesis in Gender and Sexuality Studies by the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality. Caitlin holds a BSc in Psychology from the University of Zurich.