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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 […]

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

National Spouses Day Is This Sunday…. Feeling Any Pressure?

Posted on January 23, 2020 in Fact Sheets

Experts: Daniel Carlson / Stephanie Coontz

National Spouses Day Is This Sunday…. Feeling Any Pressure? A Fact Sheet on Prospects for Marriage in Contemporary America Prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Daniel L. Carlson, University of Utah, and Stephanie Coontz, The Evergreen State College — January 26 is National Spouses Day, and Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. […]

Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Singles & Dating

Stephanie Coontz on History of Wedding Traditions in NBC News

Posted on July 15, 2019 in Members In The News

Experts: Stephanie Coontz

In her Op-Ed for NBC News, CCF Director of Research and Public Education Stephanie Coontz writes about the origins of gendered wedding traditions and possible implications for marital satisfaction. Coontz writes, “couples looking for happiness in the years after their wedding day might consider updating old ceremonies, or crafting new ones, that reinforce their commitment to […]

Topics of Expertise: History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life

CCF Experts Weigh in on the “Sex Recession”

Posted on January 23, 2019 in Members In The News

Experts: Daniel Carlson / Stephanie Coontz

JSTOR looks beyond the hype to examine what the “sex recession” is and whether we should be concerned about it. Several CCF experts weighed in on why the fear of a “sex recession” is misdirected. For example, Daniel Carlson explains how the amount of sex is not strongly linked to how satisfied you are with […]

Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life

Cohabitating Couples With Lower Education Levels Marry Less. Is This Because They Do Not Want To?

Posted on May 15, 2018 in Brief Reports

A Research Brief Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Research Brief Series Kelly Raley Introduction Today, nearly two-thirds of first marriages are preceded by cohabitation, but even as living together has increasingly become part of the marriage process, fewer cohabitating couples get married and an increasing proportion break up within […]

Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Economic Inequality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life

CCF’s Stephanie Coontz Writes for Harvard Business Review

Posted on April 20, 2018 in Members In The News

Experts: Stephanie Coontz

In her piece for Harvard Business Review, CCF Director of Research and Public Education, Stephanie Coontz, writes about a pernicious form of nostalgia – a collective nostalgia that involves people identifying more closely with their own group and judging members of other groups more negatively. Coontz writes, “When such nostalgia gets politicized, it can lead […]

Topics of Expertise: History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life

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 / David Cotter

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.

Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Division of Labor in Families / Feminism & Families / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life

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 […]

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

CCF BRIEF: Patterns of Progress? Changes in Gender Ideology 1977-2016

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

Experts: David Cotter

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 […]

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

CCF BRIEF: On August 26, 2017, Women’s Equality Day Turns 44

Posted on August 25, 2017 in Brief Reports

Experts: Stephanie Coontz

On August 26, 2017, Women’s Equality Day Turns 44. A fact sheet compiled for the Council on Contemporary Families by Nika Fate-Dixon and Stephanie Coontz, The Evergreen State College. Executive summary/advisory available. August 25, 2017 Ninety-seven years ago on Saturday, Congress certified the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting American women the […]

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

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EXPERTS

Michele Adams

Associate Professor of Sociology, Tulane University

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

Stephanie Coontz

Director of Research and Public Education, Council on Contemporary Families; Professor, The Evergreen State College

David Cotter

Professor of Sociology, Union College

Rebecca Davis

Associate Professor of History, University of Delaware

Eli Finkel

Professor of Psychology; Professor of Management & Organizations, Northwestern University

Paula Fomby

Associate Research Scientist, University of Michigan Institute for Social Research

Frank Furstenberg

Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania

Katherine Gallagher Robbins

Director of Family Policy, Center for American Progress

Kathleen Gerson

Collegiate Professor of Sociology, New York University

Pilar Gonalons-Pons

Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Sarah Knott

Associate Professor of History and Research Fellow, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University

Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox

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

Arielle Kuperberg

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

Susan Matt

Presidential Distinguished Professor of History, Weber State University

Elaine Tyler May

Regents Professor of American Studies and History, University of Minnesota

Melissa Milkie

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

Steven Mintz

Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin; Executive Director, Institute for Transformational Learning, University of Texas System

Mark T. Morman

Professor of Communication & Director of Graduate Studies, Baylor University

Michele Pridmore-Brown

Research Scholar, Center for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, UC Berkeley; Senior Editor, Los Angeles Review of Books

Jennifer Randles

Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State University-Fresno

Michael Rosenfeld

Professor of Sociology, Stanford University

Stephen Russell

Professor and Chair, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Texas at Austin

Sharon Sassler

Professor, Cornell University

Liana Sayer

Professor of Sociology, Maryland Population Research Center

Betsey Stevenson

Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan

Nicholas Wolfinger

Professor of Family & Consumer Studies and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of Utah