For Immediate Release CONTACT: Arielle Kuperberg / UNC Greensboro / atkuperb@uncg.edu March 24, 2021, Austin Texas In the past 30 years, the percentage of students at 4-year colleges who take out loans to finance their education has grown from less than half to a full two-thirds, and their average debt load – in constant dollars […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Kristi Williams / The Ohio State University / ccf@osu.edu Do the Media’s “Sexy Girl” Messages Trump Their “Girl Power” Ones? On average, children in elementary school watch four and a half hours of television a day: At that rate they see almost 80,000 examples of “sexy girl” role models, in children’s […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Virginia Rutter / Framingham State Sociology vrutter@gmail.com What’s the Role of Child Protective Services? New Study Points to Parallels with Policing Each year, U.S. child protection authorities, tasked with responding to child abuse and neglect, investigate the families of over three million children, disproportionately poor, Black, and Native American children. A […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Virginia Rutter / Framingham State Sociology vrutter@gmail.com Telecommuting Gets Mixed Results for Gender Equity at Home, and Women Are More Depressed Even before the pandemic, telecommuting had mixed results on gender equity. And mothers telecommuting during the pandemic report more stress and depression than mothers working outside the home. August 4, […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Virginia Rutter / Framingham State Sociology vrutter@gmail.com Men pick up (some) of the slack at home: New national survey on the pandemic at home For many couples, family work at home has increased, but for most of those couples, even when women are still doing more than their partners, women’s relative share […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Virginia Rutter / Framingham State Sociology vrutter@gmail.com Cohabiting in the Time of Covid19: The good, the bad, and the need for support Eighteen million people in the U.S. are cohabiting, and half are under age 35. Cohabiting couples are more egalitarian; but they are younger, poorer, and more vulnerable at work […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Virginia Rutter / Framingham State Sociology vrutter@gmail.com Uber-rich parents and their fixers may be just the tip of the iceberg. Turns out it’s hard for teachers to resist pushy parents. Most Americans applaud the prison sentences given college admissions scandal parents like actor Felicity Huffman and “fixers” like tennis coach Michael […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Virginia Rutter / Sociology @ Framingham State University vrutter@gmail.com How Can Colleges Define Consent and Reduce Unwanted Sex? No easy answers here. CCF’s Online Symposium, Defining Consent, takes an unflinching look at the thorny question, what should count as consent to sexual activity – and what should not? In the process, […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Barbara J. Risman / Sociology @ University of Illinois at Chicago brisman@uic.edu *Press advisory prepared for CCF by Barbara J. Risman, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago. The CCF Symposium, Parents Can’t Go It Alone, introduces you to important new work about what parents […]
Council on Contemporary Families 2020 Media Awards for Outstanding Coverage of Family Issues The Council on Contemporary Families (CCF) announces the opening of nominations for its Fourteenth Annual Media Awards competition. We honor outstanding journalism that contributes to the public understanding of contemporary family issues, in particular the story behind the story: how diverse families are coping with […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Virginia Rutter / Sociology @ Framingham State University vrutter@gmail.com Sociologist Jill Yavorsky conducted a field audit on gender discrimination in hiring and shares this early exclusive summary and commentary with CCF. Her brief report, Hiring-related Discrimination: Sexist Beliefs and Expectations Hurt both Women’s and Men’s Career Options, shows that men as […]
Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / Gender & Sexuality / Labor & Workforce
CONTACT: Virginia Rutter / Sociology @ Framingham State University vrutter@gmail.com Who Cohabits? Evidence about wealth and religion tells a changing story Sociologist Arielle Kuperberg conducted new data analysis exclusively for this CCF briefing report that shows how cohabitation has changed from 1956 to the present. This new brief also includes findings from her forthcoming journal […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Virginia Rutter / Sociology @ Framingham State University vrutter@gmail.com Gender Matters in Every Aspect of Our Lives – and what you need to know to keep up CCF’s Online Symposium, Gender Matters, introduces you to some important new work featured in the newly published Handbook of the Sociology of Gender, in […]
CONTACT: Virginia Rutter / Framingham State University Sociology vrutter@gmail.com CCF Press Advisory In Time to Join #MeToo, Research Highlights Men’s Growing Support for Gender Equality April 3, 2018, Austin, TX: Two new studies, presented today to the Council on Contemporary Families, reveal that despite the serious obstacles still standing in the way of […]
CCF releases the 7th Edition of Unconventional Wisdom, highlighting new and under-reported research on creating and conceiving families in the 21st Century. AUSTIN, TX/March 1, 2018 — In preparation for the Council on Contemporary Families’ March 2 Annual Conference, Conceiving Families in the 21st Century, the Council asked speakers and CCF Senior Scholars to […]
