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Welfare Reform at 20. How’s that working for you?

Posted on August 21, 2016 in Online Symposia

Welfare 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 […]

Welfare Reform Attitudes and Single Mothers’ Employment after 20 Years

Posted on August 21, 2016 in Online Symposia

Experts: Philip Cohen, Ph.D.

Welfare Reform Attitudes and Single Mothers’ Employment after 20 Years A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Philip Cohen, Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland. August 22, 2016 The welfare reform bill that emerged in 1996, after a back-and-forth struggle between President Bill Clinton and the Congress (both houses of which […]

Topics of Expertise: TANF & Public Assistance / Work & Family

TANF didn’t fight poverty. Full employment did.

Posted on August 21, 2016 in Online Symposia

Experts: Virginia Rutter, PhD.

A briefing paper prepared for Council on Contemporary Families by Alan Barber, Director of Domestic Policy, Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Virginia Rutter, Professor of Sociology, Framingham State University. August 22, 2016 Welfare reform hits 20 this month. The Center for Economic and Policy Research has done much work examining how full employment […]

Topics of Expertise: Labor and Workforce / TANF & Public Assistance / Work & Family

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: Heather Boushey, Ph.D. / Nancy Folbre, Ph.D. / 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.

Topics of Expertise: Feminism & Families / Work & Family

Presidential Candidate Fact Checked by CCF Experts: Stephanie Coontz, Nancy Folbre, and Kristi Williams

Posted on January 22, 2016 in CCF News, Members In The News

Experts: Kristi Williams, Ph.D. / Nancy Folbre, Ph.D. / Stephanie Coontz

RH Fact Check cited CCF members Stephanie Coontz, Nancy Folbre, and Kristi Williams in its review of Jeb Bush’s comments on poverty and marriage, Hard Work and Marriage Aren’t the Magic Cure-Alls for Poverty Jeb Bush Is Hoping For.

Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / Work & Family

What Helps Women Entrepreneurs Flourish?

Posted on November 5, 2015 in Brief Reports, CCF News

Experts: Sarah Thebaud

What Helps Women Entrepreneurs Flourish? A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Sarah Thébaud, University of California at Santa Barbara November 5, 2015 Most Americans agree that entrepreneurship is an important component of economic growth and job creation. Small businesses accounted for two million new jobs last year, and innovative start-ups […]

Topics of Expertise: Labor and Workforce / Work & Family

Gender Revolution and the Restabilization of Family Life

Posted on August 25, 2015 in Brief Reports, CCF News, Publications

Gender Revolution and the Restabilization of Family Life A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Frances Goldscheider, College Park Professor of Family Science, University of Maryland August 26 is Women’s Equality Day. Established in 1971, the day commemorates passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. […]

Topics of Expertise: Child Welfare / Division of Labor in Families / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Work & Family

The Continuing “Gender Revolution” in Housework and Care: Evidence from Long-term Time-use Trends

Posted on May 7, 2015 in Brief Reports, Online Symposia

The Continuing “Gender Revolution” in Housework and Care: Evidence from Long-term Time-use Trends A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families Online Symposium on Housework, Gender, and Parenthood by Oriel Sullivan (University of Oxford), Jonathan Gershuny (University of Oxford) and John Robinson (University of Maryland) May 7, 2015 As women entered the paid […]

Topics of Expertise: Work & Family

“Daddy’s Home!” Increasing Men’s Use of Paternity Leave

Posted on April 2, 2015 in Brief Reports

“DADDY’S HOME!” INCREASING MEN’S USE OF PATERNITY LEAVE A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families By Ankita Patnaik, Cornell University April 2, 2015 A new study of Quebec’s recent non-transferable parental leave for fathers demonstrates just how effective this generous benefit is in getting fathers more involved at home. With new benefits, […]

Topics of Expertise: Child Welfare / Childcare (Providers & Systems) / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Work & Family

An Analysis of New Census Data on Family Structure, Education, and Income

Posted on February 26, 2015 in Brief Reports

Experts: Shannon Cavanagh, PhD.

An Analysis of New Census Data on Family Structure, Education, and Income A report and commentary prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Shannon Cavanagh, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, 512.471.8319, scavanagh@austin.utexas.edu A set of tables released by […]

Topics of Expertise: Work & Family

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EXPERTS

Pallavi Banerjee, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Calgary

Chloe E. Bird, Ph.D.

Senior Sociologist, RAND Corporation; Professor of Sociology and Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School

Amy Blackstone

Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Maine

Christine Bose

Professor Emerita of Sociology at University at Albany, SUNY & Faculty Affiliate at University of Washington, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Heather Boushey, Ph.D.

Chief Economist, American Progress

Christie Boxer, PhD

Assistant Professor at Adrian College

Karin Brewster

Professor of Sociology at Florida State University

Daniel Carlson

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

Youngjoo Cha, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Indiana University

Philip Cohen, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland

Stephanie Coontz

Director of Research and Public Education, Council on Contemporary Families

David Cotter, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology, Union College

Robert Crosnoe, PhD

Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

Sarah Damaske, PhD.

Assistant Professor of Labor and Employment Relations, Sociology, and Women's Studies, The Pennsylvania State University

Shannon N. Davis

Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University

Charlene Depner

Deputy Director California Judicial Council Center for Families, Children & Courts

Kathryn Edin, Ph.D.

Professor of Public Policy and Management at the Kennedy School, Harvard University

Sinikka Elliott

Professor of sociology at North Carolina State University

Manuel Fermin

Chief Executive Officer, Healthy Start Coalition of Miami-Dade

Nancy Folbre, Ph.D.

Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Mindy Fried, M.S.W., Ph.D.

Sociologist, Arbor Consulting Partners

Katherine Gallagher Robbins

Director of Family Policy Center for American Progress

Kathleen Gerson, PhD.

Collegiate Professor of Sociology, New York University

Naomi Gerstel

Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Jennifer Glass, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology , University of Texas, Austin

Elizabeth Gregory, Ph.D.

Director of the Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program, Professor of English, University of Houston

Sanjiv Gupta, Ph.D.

Chief Operating Officer and Executive VP, R&D Kashiv Pharma, LLC

Melissa Hardesty, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University

Jeffrey Hayes, Ph.D.

Study Director, Institute for Women Policy Research

Joan Hermsen, Ph.D.

Chair, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Missouri

Joan Hermsen

Associate Professor of Sociology, Chair of Women's & Gender Studies, University of Missouri

Sandra Hofferth

Professor, University of Maryland

Clare Huntington

Professor and Associate Dean for Research at Fordham Law School

Roberta Iversen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Faculty Director of the Master of Science in Social Policy program, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice

Jerry Jacobs

Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Michelle Janning, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology and Assistant Dean of Faculty, Whitman College

Claire Kamp Dush

Associate Professor, The Ohio State University

Gayle Kaufman

Professor of Sociology and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Davidson College

Arielle Kuperberg, Ph.D.

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

Demie Kurz

Sociologist & Co-Director of the Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania

Ricci Levy

President and CEO, Woodhull Freedom Foundation

David Maume

Professor of Sociology, University of Cincinnati

Linda McClain, JD.

Professor of Law & Paul M. Siskind Research Scholar at Boston University School of Law

Melissa Milkie

Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto

Jeylan Mortimer, PhD.

Professor of Sociology and Director of the Life Course Center, University of Minnesota

Christin Munsch

Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut

Joanna Pepin

Doctoral Candidate at the University of Maryland

Maureen Perry-Jenkins

Professor of Psychology; Director of Center for Research on Families at University of Masschusetts Amherst/ Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University

Elizabeth Peters, Ph.D.

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