CCF Briefing The Benefits and Moral Quandaries of a World Run by Code In 1993, ‘Joy Luck Club’ Changed Hollywood. Until It Didn’t. When College Students Feel Suicidal Asian-Americans Don’t Fit a Stereotype Children Must Be Left to Play Does Your Generation Experience More Anxiety Than Other Generations? It’s Hard for Doctors to Unlearn Things. […]
CCF Briefing U.K.’s NHS Ads Try to Scare Young People Away from Parenthood One Face of Immigration in America Is a Family Tree Rooted in Asia Retire? These Graying ‘Encore Entrepreneurs’ Are Just Starting Up The Risks to Children From Adults Who Smoke Yet Another Worrisome Subway Statistic: More People Are Going on the Tracks […]
CCF Briefing Does surveilling alleged domestic abusers violate their rights? Betsy DeVos is trying to sweep rape back under the rug The Big Myth About Teenage Anxiety Why Does the School Day End Two Hours Before the Workday? When Postpartum Depression Doesn’t Go Away California Teenagers Could Sleep Later Under School Start Bill He Asked […]
CCF Briefing The Menopausal Vagina Monologues Honey, I Swept the Floor! 2 Passengers Charged With Sexual Assault Aboard Aircraft as F.B.I. Cracks Down ‘An Attack on Students’ Rights’: Reactions to Betsy DeVos’s New Rules on Sexual Assault The Continuing Tragedy of the Separated Children Preventing Muscle Loss Among the Elderly The Catholic Church Is Sick […]
CCF Briefing The Unbearable Darkness of Young Adult Literature Study: Children of Divorce Less Likely to Earn Degree Want to Protect the Right to Abortion? Train More People to Perform Them Posters Suggesting That Women Can Drink While Pregnant Stir Backlash Should You Track Your Teen’s Location? Middle Schools Face Concentrated Poverty and Gaps in […]
CCF Briefing Despite strong economy, many Americans struggling to get by Breast-Feeding Mothers Should Avoid Marijuana, Pediatricians Say The Trump Tax Cuts Were Supposed to Depress Housing Prices. They Haven’t. How Much Alcohol Is Safe to Drink? None, Say These Researchers How a Plant Ages Does Our Cultural Obsession With Safety Spell the Downfall of […]
CCF Briefing Ignore, Condescend, Dismiss: Debate Playbook for Men Facing Women Teachers in the US are even more segregated than students There’s No Innocent Way to Ask Your Son or Daughter About Grandkids How Fertility Apps Exclude Fathers Report: 50% of graduate students feel ‘psychological distress’ A Paid Family Leave Plan That Congress Might Actually […]
CCF Briefing The Doctor Doesn’t Listen to Her. But the Media Is Starting To. What’s the Right Way to Legalize Prostitution?: An Exchange The dark history of the pill Why are nursing homes drugging dementia patients without their consent? The Wrong Way to Do Paid Family Leave How family structure affects the likelihood of child […]
CCF Briefing The Impossible Choice My Father Had to Make For Italy’s Abused Women, a Legal Labyrinth Compounds the Wounds There Will Never Be an Age of Artificial Intimacy Eighth Graders Watch ‘Eighth Grade’ and Relate (and Also Cringe) How Argentina Has Made Halting Progress on Abortion Rights Treating Chronic Pain Court Orders E.P.A. to […]
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 […]
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, 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 […]
