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  • Media Messages to Young Girls: Does “Sexy Girl” Trump “Girl Power”?

    Posted on September 2, 2020 in Brief Reports, CCF News


    Media Messages to Young Girls: Does “Sexy Girl” Trump “Girl Power”? A briefing paper prepared by Christia Spears Brown, University of Kentucky for the Council on Contemporary Families. September 3, 2020 Children face continued social isolation this fall, with 21 of the 25 largest school districts in the country choosing remote learning instead of in-person […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Children / Feminism & Families / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Sexual Abuse & Misconduct
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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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    How Greater Travel Distance Due to Clinic Closures Reduced Access to Abortion in Texas

    Posted on May 16, 2018 in Brief Reports


    A Research Brief Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Research Brief Series   Daniel Grossman, Kari White, Kristine Hopkins, and Joseph E. Potter Introduction In 2013, the Texas legislature passed House Bill (HB) 2, a law that restricted access to medication abortion, banned abortions after 20 weeks “post-fertilization,” required doctors who […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Feminism & Families / Fertility,Reproduction & Sexual Health / Reproductive Health
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    Perceptions of Shared Power, Gender Conformity, and Marital Quality in Same- and Different-Sex Marriages

    Posted on May 15, 2018 in Brief Reports
    Experts: Debra Umberson

    A Research Brief Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Research Brief Series   Amanda M. Pollitt, Brandon A. Robinson, and Debra Umberson   Introduction Marriage is a key institutional context for the study of gender and gender inequality. One way in which gender inequality is maintained in marriage is through gender […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Feminism & Families / Gender & Sexuality / LGBTQ Partnering & Families
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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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    Millennials Aren’t Traditionalists, Says CCF President Barbara Risman

    Posted on June 27, 2017 in Members In The News
    Experts: Barbara Risman

    CCF President Barbara Risman weighs in on recent findings that millennials want more traditional gender roles at home in a recent article in the GoodCall. Despite these findings, Risman says that millennials are not more conservative than previous generations when it comes to roles in a family. “There are no traditionalists, as defined as people […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Division of Labor in Families / Feminism & Families
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    Women Still at Work: CCF members weigh in on Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family

    Posted on May 20, 2016 in Members In The News
    Experts: Stephanie Coontz

    CCF members Heather Boushey, Stephanie Coontz, and Nancy Folbre join other prominent feminists in reflecting on the significance of Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family for Short Takes: Provocations on Public Feminism, an online-first feature of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

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    Topics of Expertise: Feminism & Families / Work & Family
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    CCF President Barbara Risman comments on the US presidential elections in Chicago Tribune

    Posted on February 22, 2016 in CCF News, Members In The News, Opinion Pieces
    Experts: Barbara Risman / Stephanie Coontz

    In a Chicago Tribune commentary, CCF President Barbara Risman and Director of Research Stephanie Coontz reflect on what it means to be a woman – and ‘the’ woman – during the 2016 election cycle. Young women may not be the voters that feminists should be courting…  

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    Topics of Expertise: Feminism & Families
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    CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Women’s Changing Social Status since the Civil Rights Act

    Posted on February 6, 2014 in Brief Reports
    Experts: Stephanie Coontz

    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.

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    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 & Workforce / Work & Family
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    CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Civil Rights for Women, 1964-2014

    Posted on February 6, 2014 in Brief Reports


    By Max Coleman, Research Intern Council on Contemporary Families Fifty years ago, the United States adopted the Civil Rights Act, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, ethnic origin, religion, and gender. Women were a last-minute addition to the bill, and some legislators actually hoped that adding women would mobilize enough opposition to kill the […]

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    EXPERTS

    Michele Adams

    Associate Professor of Sociology, Tulane University

    Constance Ahrons

    Professor Emerita, University of Southern California

    Kelly Campbell

    Professor of Psychology, California State University, San Bernardino

    Daniel Carlson

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

    Megan Carroll

    Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State University San Bernardino

    Marilyn Coleman

    Curators' Professor Emerita of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Missouri

    Miranda Cunningham

    Assistant Professor of Practice, Child, Youth, and Family Studies program, Portland State University

    Sarah Damaske

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

    Rebecca Davis

    Associate Professor of History, University of Delaware

    Sinikka Elliott

    Associate Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia

    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

    Rosanna Hertz

    1919 Reunion Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies, Wellesley College

    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

    Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox

    Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida

    Ellen Lamont

    Assistant Professor of Sociology, Appalachian State University

    Ricci Levy

    President and CEO, Woodhull Freedom Foundation

    Lauren Jade Martin

    Associate Professor of Sociology, Penn State University

    Linda McClain

    Robert Kent Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law

    Mark T. Morman

    Professor of Communication & Director of Graduate Studies, Baylor University

    Christin Munsch

    Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut

    Abigail Ocobock

    Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame

    Allison Pugh

    Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia

    Jennifer Randles

    Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State University-Fresno

    Barbara Risman

    Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago

    Virginia Rutter

    Professor of Sociology, Framingham State University

    Susan Stewart

    Professor of Sociology, Iowa State University

    Nancy Unger

    Professor of History, Santa Clara University

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