Research Associate
Rachel Minkin is a research associate focusing on social and demographic trends at Pew Research Center. She has contributed to studies on parenting and trends in family life, gender identity, the changing workplace, and Americans’ financial outlooks.
Minkin has a Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and Sociology and a M.A. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies, both from Brandeis University, and a B.A. from the University of Virginia.
Nearly half of U.S. adults say the pandemic has driven people in their community apart. Many see a long road to recovery: About one-in-five say life in their community will never get back to the way it was before COVID-19.
The share of mothers who said it would be best for them to work full time dropped from 51% to 44% between 2019 and 2020.
Americans’ comfort levels with using gender-neutral pronouns to refer to someone have remained static since 2017.
About a year since the coronavirus recession began, there are some signs of improvement in the U.S. labor market, and Americans are feeling somewhat better about their personal finances than they were early in the pandemic.
A majority of workers in only four out of nine industries studied say that the responsibilities of their job can be done from home.
The abrupt closure of many offices and workplaces this past spring ushered in a new era of remote work for millions of employed Americans and may portend a significant shift in the way a large segment of the workforce operates in the future.
Half of adults who say they lost a job due to the coronavirus outbreak are still unemployed.
Many of the values of the feminist movement have been accepted across the political spectrum in the United States.
Americans who recently protested are more likely to live in an urban area and to identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party.
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