Inés Martínez Echagüe (she/they) is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a MA in Gender and Public Policies from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences. Her research interests include gender, family, feminism, inequality, and social change processes. In her work, she uses quantitative and qualitative methods—especially in-depth interviewing— to examine how egalitarian and feminist ideals shape the pursuit of more just social relations. Her dissertation, The Feminist Tide and Everyday Gender in Latin America, draws on 66 life-history interviews in Uruguay to examine how widespread feminist mobilizations are shaping cis women and gender minorities’ daily lives. In “Equality Takes Work: A Process to Understand Why Women Still Do Most of the Household Labor,” forthcoming in Social Forces, she theorizes women’s work towards creating more egalitarian divisions of household labor, providing a novel explanation for why this work so often fail.
