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Kathleen Gerson

Collegiate Professor of Sociology, New York University

Kathleen Gerson is Collegiate Professor of Sociology at NYU, where she is a recognized authority on gender, work, and family change. Her most recent book, The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family, is an award-winning study of how new generations have responded to the gender revolution of […]

Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Division of Labor in Families / Economic Inequality / Feminism & Families / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Labor & Workforce / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Public Policy / Transition - Adolescents to Adulthood / Transition - Couples to Parenting / Work & Family

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Recent Postings

CCF Board Member Barbara Risman On How To Help Working Parents While Also Equalizing Children’s Educational Access

Long-term Risks to Children from Economic Toll of COVID-19

Challenges Facing Cohabiting Couples Differ from those of Married Couples in this Crisis

Media Messages to Young Girls: Does “Sexy Girl” Trump “Girl Power”?

Before and during COVID-19: Telecommuting, Work-Family Conflict, and Gender Equality

CCF’S Stephanie Coontz Interviewed by Legacy Washington

Before and during COVID-19: Telecommuting, Work-Family Conflict, and Gender Equality

CCF’S Stephanie Coontz Interviewed by Legacy Washington

CCF’s Executive Director Jennifer Glass on the Struggle for Child Care in a Pandemic

CCF’s Joshua Coleman on Helping Your Family Take COVID-19 Seriously

Transgender Youth Allowed to Use Their Chosen Name Have Fewer Mental Health Problems

The Impact of the Zika Epidemic on Women’s Reproductive Intentions and Behaviors in Brazil

“The Tool We Have”: Why Child Protective Services Investigates So Many Families and How Even Good Intentions Backfire

Long-term Risks to Children from Economic Toll of COVID-19

New MAST Center Brief on Trends in Relationship Formation and Stability

Same-Sex Couples Devote More Attention to End-of-Life Plans than Heterosexual Couples

Black Deaths Matter: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Racial Disparities in Relationship Loss and Health

For a Limited Time Only: Josh Coleman is ‘On the Air’ with ‘Knowledge@Wharton’

Household Instability and Complexity among Undocumented Immigrants

Parenting Patterns, Racial Discrimination, and African American Adolescents’ Psychological and Academic Outcomes

Black Deaths Matter: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Racial Disparities in Relationship Loss and Health

New MAST Center Brief on Trends in Relationship Formation and Stability

CCF’s Kristi Williams on WHYY Philadelphia

National Spouses Day Is This Sunday…. Feeling Any Pressure?