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CCF Gender Revolution Symposium

Posted on March 6, 2012 in Online Symposia, Press Releases
Experts: Stephanie Coontz

In 1973 – less than 40 years ago — the Supreme Court ruled that sex-segregated employment ads were illegal. The next two decades saw massive, rapid action in eradicating old laws and prejudices. But now three researchers argue that progress toward gender equality has slowed or even stalled since the early 1990s.

In this CCF online symposium in time for International Women’s Day, David A. Cotter, Joan M. Hermsen and Reeve Vanneman present their discussion paper “Is the Gender Revolution Over?” and CCF fellows from around the United States offer a series of responses that add to this discussion.

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Topics of Expertise: Feminism & Families / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Race, Ethnicity & Culture
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CCF Gender Revolution Symposium: In Sex and Romance, Not So Much Gender Revolution

Posted on March 6, 2012 in Brief Reports
Experts: Paula England

By Paula England, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology New York University Email: pengland@nyu.edu Back in the 1960s, feminist activists declared that “the personal is political,” meaning that seemingly innocuous personal interactions, such as a man opening the door for a woman unencumbered by a package, buying his date a restaurant meal while the woman reciprocated with […]

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Topics of Expertise: History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Singles & Dating
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CCF Gender Revolution Symposium: What If Women Were In Charge?

Posted on March 6, 2012 in Brief Reports


Philip N. Cohen, Ph.D. Department of Sociology University of Maryland, College Park Phone: 919 260 2868 Email: pnc@umd.edu Few would deny there was a gender revolution in the world of management from the 1970s through the mid-1990s or so. But after more than doubling from 1970 to 1990 – from less than 15 percent to […]

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Topics of Expertise: Gender & Sexuality / Work & Family
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CCF Gender Revolution Symposium: Gender Evolution among Employed Men

Posted on March 6, 2012 in Brief Reports


By Ellen Galinsky President Families and Work Institute Phone: 212.465.2044 Email: egalinsky@familiesandwork.org I prefer to think of changes in gender relations and values as an evolution, with ups and downs and uneven progress in different areas. It is not at all clear that changes in men’s attitudes and behaviors have stalled. In 1977, three-quarters (74 percent) […]

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Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Labor & Workforce / Work & Family
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CCF Gender Revolution Symposium: The Beat Goes On

Posted on March 6, 2012 in Brief Reports


By Barbara Risman, Ph.D. Professor and Head of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago Phone: 919 349 0090 Email: brisman@uic.edu The gender revolution continues in many areas even if it has slowed down in others. The medical and legal professions are becoming feminized; women continue to outstrip men in educational attainment, recently surpassing them even […]

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CCF Gender Revolution Symposium: Is the Gender Revolution Over?

Posted on March 6, 2012 in Brief Reports


David A. Cotter Professor and Chair of Sociology, Union College, Schenectady NY cotter@union.edu / 518 388 6457 Joan M. Hermsen Associate Professor of Sociology & Chair of Women’s & Gender Studies University of Missouri, Columbia, MO hermsenj@missouri.edu / 573 884 1420 Reeve Vanneman Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD reeve@umd.edu […]

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CCF Gender Revolution Symposium: Revolutions Seldom Revolutionize Everything

Posted on March 6, 2012 in Brief Reports
Experts: Stephanie Coontz

By Stephanie Coontz Professor of History The Evergreen State College Phone: 360-352-8117 Email: coontzs@msn.com Some of the ideals of the gender revolution are not yet achieved, and new forms of inequality have been created in the process of overturning older ones. But the gender revolution is already a reality. The American Revolution did not guarantee inalienable […]

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Topics of Expertise: History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life
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CCF Gender Revolution Symposium: No Stall in the Sexual Revolution

Posted on March 6, 2012 in Brief Reports


By Brian Powell, Ph.D. James H. Rudy Professor of Sociology Indiana University Phone: 812-855-7624 (office); 812-360-0474 (cell) Email: powell@indiana.edu The gender revolution may have been stalled, but the sexual revolution continues to gather steam. Twenty years ago, the idea of same-sex marriage was inconceivable for most heterosexual and homosexual Americans. Sixteen years ago, the Defense […]

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CCF Gender Revolution Symposium: Divergent Revolutions for Blacks, Latinos, and Whites

Posted on March 6, 2012 in Brief Reports


By Janelle Jones Labor Market Researcher, Center for Economic and Policy Research Phone: 202-293-5380 Email: jones@cepr.net As Cotter, Hermsen, and Vanneman argue, the extent of the gender revolution has been exaggerated. In the years between the passage of the Equal Pay Act in 1963 and 2010, the pay gap has closed at less than half-a-cent […]

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Topics of Expertise: African American Families / Latino Families / Race, Ethnicity & Culture
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