Overview
Background
Christina Bornatici is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working on the ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Project Bringing Equality Home: A New Gender Agenda. Her broader research interests include gender inequality, family dynamics, paid employment and unpaid work, social policy, and quantitative research methods.
Her research examines how gender inequalities are produced, sustained, and challenged across the life course and over historical time, with a particular focus on gender attitudes and the division of labour within couples. She uses longitudinal quantitative and comparative methods to analyse how attitudes, couple dynamics, institutional contexts, and gender norms shape social outcomes.
Christina holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Prior to joining ISSR, she was a researcher at FORS – the Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Science.
Availability
- Dr Christina Bornatici is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of International Relations, University of Geneva
- Masters (Coursework) of Science in Economics and Social Sciences, University of Geneva
- Doctor of Philosophy of Science in Economics and Social Sciences, University of Lausanne
Research interests
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Gender Inequality
Examines how the gender structure and life-course processes shape gender inequalities in paid work, unpaid work, and family life
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Gender Attitudes and Sexism
Analyses how individual gender attitudes, sexist beliefs, and broader normative contexts evolve over time and shape social expectations, behaviours, and inequalities.
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Gender Indicators and Measurement
Reflects on the measurement of sex, gender identity, gender attitudes, and sexism in population surveys
Works
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2026
Journal Article
Discriminations et violences de genre en Suisse analysées au prisme de l’hétérosexisme : enjeux méthodologiques
Gianettoni, Lavinia, Blondé, Jérôme, Bornatici, Christina, Gauthier, Jacques-Antoine, Le Goff, Jean-Marie and Déjussel, Morgane (2026). Discriminations et violences de genre en Suisse analysées au prisme de l’hétérosexisme : enjeux méthodologiques. Swiss Journal of Sociology, 52 (1), 101-120. doi: 10.26034/cm.sjs.2026.8965
2025
Journal Article
Measuring assigned sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation in population surveys
Bornatici, Christina, Felder, Max, Gianettoni, Lavinia, Mordasini, Roxane and Steinmetz, Stephanie (2025). Measuring assigned sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation in population surveys. FORS Guides, 26, 1-44. doi: 10.24449/FG-2025-00026
2025
Journal Article
New Work – New Problems? : Gender Perspectives on the Transformation of Work - Introduction to the Special Issue
Lanfranconi, Lucia, Zinn, Isabelle, Steinmetz, Stephanie, Fuchs, Gesine and Bornatici, Christina (2025). New Work – New Problems? : Gender Perspectives on the Transformation of Work - Introduction to the Special Issue. Swiss Journal of Sociology, 51 (1). doi: 10.26034/cm.sjs.2025.6962
2025
Other Outputs
Gender equality in Switzerland through the lens of gender attitudes and couples’ work-family arrangements
Bornatici, Christina (2025). Gender equality in Switzerland through the lens of gender attitudes and couples’ work-family arrangements. PhD Thesis, Institute for Social Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
2025
Journal Article
Beyond tradition? How Gender Ideology Impacts Employment and Family Arrangements in Swiss Couples
Bornatici, Christina and Zinn, Isabelle (2025). Beyond tradition? How Gender Ideology Impacts Employment and Family Arrangements in Swiss Couples. Gender & Society, 39 (2), 285-320. doi: 10.1177/08912432251317464
2024
Journal Article
Comprendre, prévenir et repenser les violences dans nos sociétés : Retour d’expérience sur l’édition du numéro 3 et mise en lumière des contributions
Bornatici, Christina, Bovey, Fanny and Tabin, Mireille (2024). Comprendre, prévenir et repenser les violences dans nos sociétés : Retour d’expérience sur l’édition du numéro 3 et mise en lumière des contributions. Revue pluridisciplinaire d'Education par et pour les Doctorant-e-s, 1 (3), 5-12. doi: 10.57154/journals/red.2024.e1736
2022
Other Outputs
La situation des jeunes femmes en Suisse: revue de la littérature
Bornatici, Christina (2022). La situation des jeunes femmes en Suisse: revue de la littérature. Bern, Switzerland: Commission fédérale pour les questions féminines.
2020
Journal Article
Changing attitudes towards gender equality in Switzerland (2000–2017): period, cohort and life-course effects
Bornatici, Christina, Gauthier, Jacques-Antoine and Le Goff, Jean-Marie (2020). Changing attitudes towards gender equality in Switzerland (2000–2017): period, cohort and life-course effects. Swiss Journal of Sociology, 46 (3), 559-585. doi: 10.2478/sjs-2020-0027
2020
Journal Article
Work–family arrangement and conflict: do individual gender role attitudes and national gender culture matter?
Bornatici, Christina and Heers, Marieke (2020). Work–family arrangement and conflict: do individual gender role attitudes and national gender culture matter?. Social Inclusion, 8 (4), 46-60. doi: 10.17645/si.v8i4.2967
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