Parenting and the Gender Trap   A briefing paper prepared by Emily W. Kane, Bates College, for the Council on Contemporary Families Families’ Gender Matters Online Symposium (.pdf).   Despite fifty years of significant change in gender relations, social definitions of good parenting remain so deeply gender-based that we still think of mothering and fathering as […]

Separating Migrant Families, as Practiced around the Globe   A briefing paper prepared by Maria Cecilia Hwang, Rice University; Carolyn Choi, University of Southern California; and Rhacel Parreñas, University of Southern California, for the Council on Contemporary Families’ Gender Matters Online Symposium (.pdf).   The Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents […]

Gender, Tech Jobs, and Hidden Biases that Make a Difference   A briefing paper prepared by Koji Chavez, Indiana University, for the Council on Contemporary Families’ Gender Matters Online Symposium (.pdf).   In 2014, leading high technology companies in Silicon Valley began releasing the gender breakdowns of their technical and leadership positions. First Google, then […]

Housewife Visas and Highly Skilled Immigrant Families in the U.S.   A briefing paper prepared by Pallavi Banerjee, University of Calgary, for the Council on Contemporary Families’ Gender Matters Online Symposium (.pdf).   Imagine thousands of highly qualified women forced to stay home because they are not legally allowed to work. Sounds unreal in this […]

Not Just Kid Stuff: Becoming Gendered   A briefing paper prepared by Heidi Gansen, Northwestern University, and Karin Martin, University of Michigan for the Council on Contemporary Families’ Gender Matters Online Symposium (.pdf).   Children are gendered by parents before they are born. What does that mean? As soon as parents know if “it’s a […]

Combating Gender Bias in Modern Workplaces   A briefing paper prepared by Alison T. Wynn and Shelley J. Correll, Stanford University, for the Council on Contemporary Families’ Gender Matters Online Symposium (.pdf).   Research consistently shows that unconscious or implicit gender biases systematically hinder women’s advancement in the workplace. Such biases operate outside of conscious […]

The Push and Pull of Sex, Gender, and Aging   A briefing paper prepared by Nicholas Velotta and Pepper Schwartz, University of Washington, for the Council on Contemporary Families’ Gender Matters Online Symposium (.pdf).   Not too long ago, women were considered “over the hill” once they reached middle age. Women in the 1960s recalled […]

Keynote: Gender Structures Every Aspect of Life The Gender Matters Online Symposium (.pdf) keynote essay was prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Barbara J. Risman, University of Illinois-Chicago. Risman is co-editor, with Carissa Froyum and William Scarborough, of the recently released Handbook of The Sociology of Gender (Springer 2018), which includes forty chapters […]

Gender, Race, and Girls in California’s Alternative Schools   A briefing paper prepared by Kenly Brown, University of California, Berkeley, for the Council on Contemporary Families’ Gender Matters Online Symposium (.pdf).     Since the 1970s and early 1980s, feminist criminologists have explored the ways in which the distribution of justice and punishment varies, based […]

Some men feel the need to compensate for relative loss of income to women. How they do so varies A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Dan Cassino, Professor of Political Science, Fairleigh Dickinson University. March 31, 2017 As Pepin and Cotter’s new work shows, attitudes towards gender equality across different domains […]

CCF Gender and Millennials Online Symposium: Overview  A symposium overview prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Stephanie Coontz, CCF Director of Research and Education, and Professor of History, The Evergreen State College.  March 31, 2017 The 2016 election occasioned much debate about how strongly Americans support gender equality. Was this election “a referendum […]

How Gender Mattered to Millennials in the 2016 Election and Beyond A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Director of CIRCLE Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University. March 31, 2017 In this study, I use the National Exit Poll and Tisch College/CIRCLE’s nationally representative tracking poll […]