Biography
Inés Martínez Echagüe (she/they) is sociologist and gender scholar from Uruguay. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A. in Gender and Public Policies from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences.
They are interested in gender, intimate relationships, feminist movements, Latin America, and social change processes. In their work, they use quantitative and qualitative methods —especially in-depth interviewing— to examine how egalitarian and feminist ideals shape the pursuit of more just social relations.
In “Equality Takes Work: A Process to Understand Why Women Still Do Most of the Household Labor,” published in Social Forces, she theorises women’s work towards creating more egalitarian divisions of household labour, providing a novel explanation for why this work so often fails. This paper has won awards from the American Sociological Association (ASA), the Southern Association for Public Opinion Research (SAPOR), and the Sociology Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
As a Max Weber Fellow in the European University Institute, they will work on publishing their dissertation and book project, The Feminist Tide and the Rereading of Violence in Uruguay, which draws on 70 life-history interviews to examine how widespread feminist mobilisations are shaping cisgender women’s and gender minorities’ sexual and romantic relationships.
Beyond academia, Inés has been actively involved in feminist activism and public sociology in Uruguay.