JSTOR looks beyond the hype to examine what the “sex recession” is and whether we should be concerned about it. Several CCF experts weighed in on why the fear of a “sex recession” is misdirected. For example, Daniel Carlson explains how the amount of sex is not strongly linked to how satisfied you are with […]
CCF Briefing The Fight Over Men Is Shaping Our Political Future #ThemToo Levels and Trends in Child Mortality Report 2018 When Social Services Undermine Well-being Masculinity Isn’t a Sickness Overlooked No More: Isabelle Kelley, Who Developed a Food Stamp Program to Feed Millions 5 Takeaways From the Ancient DNA Research Story Thousands More Migrant Children […]
CCF Briefing Who Foots the Bill? Families Fight Over College Debt Risk of Police-Involved Death by Race/Ethnicity and Place, United States, 2012–2018 Canada still has a lot to do for women and refugees Americans more likely to die of opioid overdose than car crash The Status of School Discipline in State Policy Why Families Break […]
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 […]
Hiring-related Discrimination: Sexist Beliefs and Expectations Hurt both Women’s and Men’s Career Options A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Jill Yavorsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Organizational Science, University of North Carolina Charlotte January 16, 2019 Although many sexist prejudices have weakened over time, gender stereotypes still influence employers’ decisions […]
3q: Per Coontz, Equality is an Agenda for All Working People, Not Just Feminists Virginia Rutter interviews Stephanie Coontz on the new Council on Contemporary Families brief, Hiring-related Discrimination: Sexist Beliefs and Expectations Hurt both Women’s and Men’s Career Options, by Jill Yavorsky. VR: You edited Jill Yavorsky’s brief on hiring-related discrimination, where she reports […]
In a new opinion piece for CNN, CCF Expert Philip Cohen reflects on the divorce of Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos and sheds light on the burden divorce places on regular people. Cohen says: “We don’t need to worry about the Bezoses. But we should worry about two things: First, no one should be able to […]
CCF Briefing 1. ‘I Love My Skin!’ Why Black Parents Are Turning to Afrocentric Schools 2. How Cities Make Money by Fining the Poor 3. See How Landlords Pack Section 8 Renters Into Poorer Neighborhoods 4. Cancer Deaths Decline 27% Over 25 Years 5. How to Keep Kids From Being Mean Online 6. What if […]
CCF Briefing 1. The 5 Years That Changed Dating 2. Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials. 3. How Do American Families Have Time to Watch 8 Hours of TV Every Day? 4. The broad, ragged cut 5. Late to Launch: The Post-Collegiate Struggle 6. Amid girl’s death, U.S. agents overwhelmed as hundreds […]
According to The Deseret News, CCF experts played a big role in shaping what we learned about the family in 2018 (“Here are 10 things studies taught us about the family in 2018”). CCF Director of Public Education, Stephanie Coontz, wrote a piece for The New York Times that informed the (shrinking) role of marriage in the […]
CCF Briefing 1, The Loneliest Generation: Americans, More Than Ever, Are Aging Alone 2. People Didn’t Used to Ask for ‘Space’ in Their Relationships 3. It’s a boy! It’s a girl! For some parents, learning their baby’s sex is a disappointment. 4. How Millennial Parents Are Reinventing the Cherished Family Photo Album 5. Why Is […]
CCF Briefing 1. Being a Boy: Eliot’s father wants him to be the 8-year-old he is, not what society expects 2. Set It and Forget It. How Better Contraception Could Be a Secret to Reducing Poverty 3. Single Payer’s Misleading Statistics 4. Study Shows Big Rise in Teen Vaping This Year 5. Homelessness Rises Slightly […]
CCF Briefing 1. A Mother’s Right to Life 2. The Placenta, an Afterthought No Longer 3. Americans Value Equality at Work More Than Equality at Home 4. Drink or Breathe? Babies Have to Do Both 5. Why Hospitals Should Let You Sleep 6. For Shame: A Brief History of the Perp Walk 7. Why Are […]
CCF Briefing The Growing Inequality Between America’s Superstar Cities, and the Rest Liberal Parents, Radical Children The Shameful Facts About Maternal Deaths in America How Loneliness Is Tearing America Apart Helping Teenagers to Be Safer Drivers The Suburbs Are Changing. But Not in All the Ways Liberals Hope. Prisoners Need a New Set of Rights […]
CCF Briefing The Geography of Corporate Headquarters Why the Housing Market Is Slumping Despite a Booming Economy Blacks Are Twice as Likely as Whites to Experience Sudden Cardiac Death Defense Lawyer Suggests a Thong Equals Consent — and Ireland Erupts America Is Blaming Pregnant Women for Their Own Deaths Debunking Stereotypes Around Veterans and PTSD […]
