Caitlyn Collins is a doctoral candidate in the Sociology Department and a Graduate Fellow of the Urban Ethnography Lab at the University of Texas at Austin. She studies gender inequality in the context of families and the workplace, both in the US and abroad. Her dissertation is a qualitative study of 100 working mothers in Germany, Sweden, Italy, and the United States. Her research has been published in Social Science and Medicine, the Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, Michigan Family Review, and in a book titled Childhood and Consumer Culture.