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
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
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
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
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 LifeNot 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
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
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 & FamilyADVISORY: Women’s Equality Day Turns 44. Gains, stalls, and setbacks August 25, 2017, Austin, TX: Since 1973, August 26th has been designated as Women’s Equality Day, offering a chance to assess the current status of gender equity. In a fact sheet compiled for the Council on Contemporary Families, Nika Fate-Dixon and Stephanie Coontz (The […]
Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Economic Inequality / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Work & Family
CCF members Daniel Carlson and Amanda Miller respond to new research on declining sexual frequency among American couples. In their Op-ed, they debunk four common myths about couples’ sex lives, highlighting important factors that predict sexual frequency and relationship satisfaction. Read the Op-ed on CNN here.
Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family LifeAssistant Professor of Family, Health, and Policy in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah
Director of Research and Public Education, Council on Contemporary Families; Professor, The Evergreen State College
Professor of Psychology; Professor of Management & Organizations, Northwestern University
Associate Research Scientist, University of Michigan Institute for Social Research
Associate Professor of History and Research Fellow, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida
Regents Professor of American Studies and History, University of Minnesota
Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin; Executive Director, Institute for Transformational Learning, University of Texas System
Professor of Communication & Director of Graduate Studies, Baylor University
Research Scholar, Center for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, UC Berkeley; Senior Editor, Los Angeles Review of Books
Professor and Chair, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
Professor of Family & Consumer Studies and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of Utah
