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Division of Labor in Families

Division of Labor in Families

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  • Before and during COVID-19: Telecommuting, Work-Family Conflict, and Gender Equality

    Posted on August 3, 2020 in Brief Reports, CCF News
    Experts: Kelly Musick

    Before and During COVID-19: Telecommuting, Work-Family Conflict, and Gender Equality A briefing paper prepared by Thomas Lyttelton (Yale Sociology), Emma Zang (Yale Sociology), and Kelly Musick (Cornell Policy Analysis and Management) for the Council on Contemporary Families. August 4, 2020 The puzzle. The COVID-19 crisis has resulted in an unprecedented shift to remote work, with […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Children / Division of Labor in Families / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Gender & Sexuality / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Work & Family
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    CCF’S Stephanie Coontz Interviewed by Legacy Washington

    Posted on July 31, 2020 in Members In The News
    Experts: Stephanie Coontz

    “Legacy Washington recently recorded an interview with author/historian Stephanie Coontz. Watch Legacy Washington historian Bob Young interview Coontz, an expert on family and marriage whose writing influenced the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage. Coontz has recently appeared in The New York Times and Rolling Stone magazine, and gave this year’s commencement speech […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Children / Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Division of Labor in Families / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Feminism & Families / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Work & Family
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    CCF Experts Featured in The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Deseret News

    Posted on July 9, 2020 in CCF News, Members In The News
    Experts: Daniel Carlson / Joanna Pepin / Richard Petts

    CCF experts Dan Carlson, Richard Petts, and Joanna Pepin discuss the findings of their latest brief report on gendered division of labor during the covid-19 pandemic with Deseret News’ Lois M. Collins. Read the article, “More men are doing housework during the pandemic, research finds,” here. UPDATE: read more coverage of CCF’s latest brief report in […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Trauma and Disaster / Work & Family
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    CCF’s Stephanie Coontz featured in Rolling Stone

    Posted on July 6, 2020 in Members In The News
    Experts: Stephanie Coontz

    Read her thoughts on the challenges mothers are facing in “Coronavirus Is Killing the Working Mother”

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    Topics of Expertise: Children / Division of Labor in Families / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood
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    Men and Women Agree: During the COVID-19 Pandemic Men Are Doing More at Home

    Posted on May 20, 2020 in Brief Reports, CCF News
    Experts: Daniel Carlson / Joanna Pepin / Richard Petts

    Men and Women Agree: During the COVID-19 Pandemic Men Are Doing More at Home. They Differ Over How Much, but in Most Households the Division of Housework and Childcare Has Become More Equal A briefing paper prepared by Daniel L. Carlson (University of Utah), Richard J. Petts (Ball State University), and Joanna R. Pepin (University […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Division of Labor in Families / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Work & Family
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    Challenges Facing Cohabiting Couples Differ from those of Married Couples in this Crisis

    Posted on May 4, 2020 in Brief Reports, CCF News
    Experts: Amanda Miller / Sharon Sassler

    Challenges Facing Cohabiting Couples Differ from those of Married Couples in this Crisis A briefing paper prepared by Amanda Miller, University of Indianapolis, and Sharon Sassler, Cornell University, for the Council on Contemporary Families. Much has been written about the challenges couples face as they adjust to “shelter in place” policies triggered by the coronavirus. […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Division of Labor in Families / Domestic Violence & Child Abuse / Economic Inequality / Marriage & Divorce / Public Policy / Trauma and Disaster
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    CCF’s Stephanie Coontz for The New York Times: What Can Different-Sex Couples Learn From Same-Sex Couples?

    Posted on February 18, 2020 in CCF News, Members In The News
    Experts: Amanda Miller / Daniel Carlson / Debra Umberson / Joanna Pepin / Kristi Williams / Sharon Sassler / Stephanie Coontz / Virginia Rutter

    Five years after marriage equality, CCF Director of Research and Public Education Stephanie Coontz asks: What can different-sex couples learn from same-sex couples? Featuring research by CCF experts Joanna Pepin, Dan Carlson, Virginia Rutter, Amanda Miller, Deb Umberson, Kristi Williams, Sharon Sassler and many more, Coontz highlights the role of gender expectations in shaping marital dynamics […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Division of Labor in Families / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / LGBTQ Partnering & Families / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood
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    Men are helping more around the house and favor more gender equality, new research shows

    Posted on April 4, 2018 in Members In The News
    Experts: Daniel Carlson

    New research by CCF members Daniel Carlson and David Cotter is featured in the Deseret News. Carlson and Cotter presented two new reports to CCF about gender differences in household work and attitudes about gender equality.    

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    Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Division of Labor in Families / Feminism & Families / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life
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    CCF BRIEF: Not All Housework is Created Equal: Particular Housework Tasks and Couples’ Relationship Quality

    Posted on April 3, 2018 in Brief Reports, News & Upcoming Events
    Experts: Daniel Carlson

    Not All Housework is Created Equal: Particular Housework Tasks and Couples’ Relationship Quality A brief report prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Dan Carlson, Assistant Professor, Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah, daniel.carlson@fcs.utah.edu. April 3, 2018 The stories inspired by the #MeToo movement reveal that despite decades of struggle for gender equality […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life
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    CCF BRIEF: Patterns of Progress? Changes in Gender Ideology 1977-2016

    Posted on April 3, 2018 in Brief Reports, News & Upcoming Events


    Patterns of Progress? Changes in Gender Ideology 1977-2016 A briefing paper prepared for The Council on Contemporary Families by David A. Cotter, Department of Sociology, Union College, cotterd@union.edu. April 3, 2018   The General Social Survey[i] has been asking a set of four questions about gender ideology since the mid 1970s. These cover the relative […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life
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    EXPERTS

    Michele Adams

    Associate Professor of Sociology, Tulane University

    Daniel Carlson

    Assistant Professor of Family, Health, and Policy in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah

    Joshua Coleman

    Psychologist

    Carolyn Cowan

    Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley

    Sarah Damaske

    Associate Professor of Labor and Employment Relations and Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University

    Paula England

    Silver Professor of Sociology, New York University

    Connie Gager

    Associate Professor, Department of Family Science & Human Development, Montclair State University

    Katherine Gallagher Robbins

    Director of Family Policy, Center for American Progress

    Kathleen Gerson

    Collegiate Professor of Sociology, New York University

    Jennifer Glass

    Professor of Sociology , University of Texas, Austin

    Pilar Gonalons-Pons

    Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

    Janet C. Gornick

    Director, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, Graduate Center CUNY

    Natalie Hengstebeck

    Postdoctoral Fellow, Scholars Strategy Network, Duke University

    Jacqueline Hudak

    Clinical Director, Perelman School of Medicine, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania

    Clare Huntington

    Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Fordham Law School

    Arielle Kuperberg

    Associate Professor of Sociology, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

    Melissa Milkie

    Professor of Sociology & Chair of the Graduate Department, University of Toronto

    Amanda Miller

    Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair, University of Indianapolis

    Maureen Perry-Jenkins

    Professor of Psychology & Director of Center for Research on Families, University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Elizabeth Peters

    Director, Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population, Urban Institute

    Richard Petts

    Professor of Sociology, Ball State University

    Allison Pugh

    Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia

    Sharon Sassler

    Professor, Cornell University

    Darby Saxbe

    Associate Professor, University of Southern California

    Liana Sayer

    Professor of Sociology, Maryland Population Research Center

    Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan

    Professor, Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University

    Susan Short

    Professor of Sociology and Director of the Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University

    Betsey Stevenson

    Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan

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