Bio

She defended her dissertation in sociology in 2014 entitled Fathering Practices of Men. She currently is a lecturer at Vilnius University in the Social Policy and Social Work programs. Her research interests include fathering and mothering practices, procreational intentions, and qualitative studies on childlessness.

Project

I will analyse non-motherhood as a process in woman’s life, when decisions about having/not having children or thoughts about children appear not once, but many times in life. Previous scholarship has explored how women’s autonomy in decision making about having/not having children can shift over the course of life (Letherby 1994, 1999; Myers 2001; Safer 1996). This sociological analysis is based on 12 semi-structured qualitative interviews with single and coupled highly qualified Lithuanian women (aged 28–47), mainly living in big cities, who do not have children for various reasons.