A Reversal in Predictors of Sexual Frequency and Satisfaction in Marriage A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Sharon Sassler, Professor, Department of Policy Analysis & Management, Cornell University June 20, 2016 In the 1940s and 1950s, the consensus of the emerging profession of marital counseling was that marital happiness and […]
Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families
Gender Revolution and the Restabilization of Family Life A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Frances Goldscheider, College Park Professor of Family Science, University of Maryland August 26 is Women’s Equality Day. Established in 1971, the day commemorates passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. […]
Topics of Expertise: Child Welfare / Division of Labor in Families / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Work & Family
CCF Symposium on Housework, Gender and Parenthood: Overview An introduction to the Council on Contemporary Families Online Symposium on Housework, Gender, and Parenthood by Stephanie Coontz, Council on Contemporary Families Director of Research and Public Education May 7, 2015 For many years, family researchers and working mothers have talked about “the second shift” – the […]
Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Gender & Sexuality / Parenthood: Motherhood/FatherhoodFirst comes love, then comes…housework? A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families Online Symposium on Housework, Gender, and Parenthood by Arielle Kuperberg, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. May 7, 2015 Does marriage lead women to take on a larger share of housework? In the 1950s and 1960s, […]
Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Division of Labor in FamiliesSame-Sex Couples May Have More Egalitarian Relationships http://www.wbur.org/npr/373835114/same-sex-couples-may-have-more-egalitarian-relationships National Public Radio (NPR) December 29, 2014
Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / LGBTQ Partnering & Families
Six charts demonstrate a renewed progress towards gender equality starting around 2006.
Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Gender & Sexuality / Labor and Workforce / Work & Family
This look at sexual frequency among younger couples in equal marriages refutes recent claims that when a man share the housework equally, it is bad for the couple’s sex life.
Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Gender & Sexuality / Work & Family
Today the Council on Contemporary Families releases the third set of papers in a three part symposium marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. The first two sets of papers described changes in America’s religious and racial-ethnic landscape in the half century since it became illegal to discriminate on the basis of religion, skin color, national origin, race, ethnicity or gender.
It’s appropriate that we turn last to how women have fared since passage of the Civil Rights Act, because the addition of the word “sex” was a last minute addition to the bill. Opponents hoped — and supporters feared — that threatening to make discrimination on the basis of sex illegal would kill the bill, and when it passed anyway, few policymakers took the sex provision seriously. Although the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission immediately moved to ban job ads that specified a particular race, it refused to do the same for the sex-segregated want ads that were the norm in 1964.
Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Feminism & Families / Fertility,Reproduction & Sexual Health / Gender & Sexuality / Health & Illness / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Labor and Workforce / Work & FamilyBy Philip N. Cohen University of Maryland Gender inequality within families is reciprocally related to gender inequality in the paid workplace. That is why one of the legacies of the Equal Pay Act, which brought scrutiny and sanctions to bear on gender discrimination at work, has been growing egalitarianism within families as well. Research consistently shows the […]
Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Work & Family
On the 50th Anniversary of The Feminine Mystique, Council on Contemporary Families Scholars identify what’s changed—and what hasn’t.
Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Feminism & Families / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / LGBTQ Partnering & Families / Race, Ethnicity & Culture / Work & FamilyAssistant Professor of Family, Health, and Policy in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah
Assistant Professor of Labor and Employment Relations, Sociology, and Women's Studies, The Pennsylvania State University
Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University
Director of Family Policy Center for American Progress
Director of the Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program, Professor of English, University of Houston
Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Professor of Psychology; Director of Center for Research on Families at University of Masschusetts Amherst/ Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
Center Director, Urban Institute, Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina
Professor of Sociology with the Maryland Population Research Center and Director of the Maryland Time Use Lab
Associate Professor of Sociology, State University of New York-Institute of Technology
