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 LifePatterns 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 Life
Michelle Janning’s recent release, The Stuff of Family Life, offers a timely look at how modern society and technology shapes our relationships and our lives. Like an archaeologist studying ancient civilizations through the things they left behind, Janning excavates contemporary life through our houses and possessions, from childhood stuffed animals and security blankets to retirement […]
Topics of Expertise: History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family LifeWelfare Reform at 20. How’s that working? Overview of the Welfare Reform at 20 Online Symposium prepared for Council on Contemporary Families by symposium editor Virginia Rutter, Professor of Sociology, Framingham State University. CCF’s Online Symposium examines the origins, progress, and future of welfare reform. August 22, 2016. Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton proposed […]
Topics of Expertise: History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / TANF & Public Assistance / Work & FamilyWelfare Reform’s 20th Anniversary A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Stephanie Coontz, Professor of History and Family Studies, The Evergreen State College August 22, 2016 Twenty years ago this month, Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), which repealed the cash assistance program, Aid to […]
Topics of Expertise: History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / TANF & Public AssistanceAssistant 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
Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware
Professor of Psychology; Professor of Management & Organizations, Northwestern University
Associate Research Scientist at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research
Professor of Sociology and Research Associate in the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
Director of Family Policy Center for American Progress
Associate Professor of Sociology, Chair of Women's & Gender Studies, University of Missouri
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida
Associate Professor of Sociology, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Professor of History, Weber State University
Regents Professor of American Studies and History at the 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
Scholar with the Center for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, UC Berkeley/ Los Angeles Review of Books
Professor of Family & Consumer Studies and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of Utah
