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    Why Families Need More Financial Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Posted on January 21, 2021 in CCF News, Fact Sheets
    Experts: Kristi Williams

    Why Families Need More Financial Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic A fact sheet prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Lawrence Stacey and Kristi Williams, The Ohio State University Despite the important temporary relief provided to many families by the March 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which provided $1,200 to […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Children / Economic Inequality / Health & Illness / Labor & Workforce / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / TANF & Public Assistance / Trauma and Disaster / Work & Family
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    Before and during COVID-19: Telecommuting, Work-Family Conflict, and Gender Equality

    Posted on August 3, 2020 in Brief Reports, CCF News
    Experts: Kelly Musick

    Before and During COVID-19: Telecommuting, Work-Family Conflict, and Gender Equality A briefing paper prepared by Thomas Lyttelton (Yale Sociology), Emma Zang (Yale Sociology), and Kelly Musick (Cornell Policy Analysis and Management) for the Council on Contemporary Families. August 4, 2020 The puzzle. The COVID-19 crisis has resulted in an unprecedented shift to remote work, with […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Children / Division of Labor in Families / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Gender & Sexuality / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Work & Family
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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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    CCF’s Executive Director Jennifer Glass on the Struggle for Child Care in a Pandemic

    Posted on July 10, 2020 in CCF News, Members In The News
    Experts: Jennifer Glass

    Parents often rely on their networks for child care, but how has that changed since COVID-19? CCF’s Executive Director Jennifer Glass has some thoughts in The Christian Science Monitor’s “‘I can’t keep this up much longer’: Parents struggle with pandemic strain.” Link: https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Family/2020/0709/I-can-t-keep-this-up-much-longer-Parents-struggle-with-pandemic-strain

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    Topics of Expertise: Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Work & Family
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    CCF Experts Featured in The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Deseret News

    Posted on July 9, 2020 in CCF News, Members In The News
    Experts: Daniel Carlson / Joanna Pepin / Richard Petts

    CCF experts Dan Carlson, Richard Petts, and Joanna Pepin discuss the findings of their latest brief report on gendered division of labor during the covid-19 pandemic with Deseret News’ Lois M. Collins. Read the article, “More men are doing housework during the pandemic, research finds,” here. UPDATE: read more coverage of CCF’s latest brief report in […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Trauma and Disaster / Work & Family
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    Men and Women Agree: During the COVID-19 Pandemic Men Are Doing More at Home

    Posted on May 20, 2020 in Brief Reports, CCF News
    Experts: Daniel Carlson / Joanna Pepin / Richard Petts

    Men and Women Agree: During the COVID-19 Pandemic Men Are Doing More at Home. They Differ Over How Much, but in Most Households the Division of Housework and Childcare Has Become More Equal A briefing paper prepared by Daniel L. Carlson (University of Utah), Richard J. Petts (Ball State University), and Joanna R. Pepin (University […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Division of Labor in Families / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Work & Family
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    CCF’s Stephanie Coontz on Paying Stay-at-Home Parents in The New York Times

    Posted on October 1, 2019 in Members In The News
    Experts: Stephanie Coontz

    In a recent article for the New York Times, CCF Director of Research and Public Education Stephanie Coontz discusses the potential implications of paying stay-at-home parents, a role most often undertaken by women. Coontz notes, “without strong incentives for dads to take on some of those duties, this would simultaneously cement women’s second-class place in the […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Childcare (Providers & Systems) / Gender & Sexuality / Labor & Workforce / Work & Family
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    Hiring-related Discrimination: Sexist Beliefs and Expectations Hurt both Women’s and Men’s Career Options

    Posted on January 16, 2019 in Brief Reports


    Hiring-related Discrimination: Sexist Beliefs and Expectations Hurt both Women’s and Men’s Career Options A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Jill Yavorsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Organizational Science, University of North Carolina Charlotte January 16, 2019 Although many sexist prejudices have weakened over time, gender stereotypes still influence employers’ decisions […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Gender & Sexuality / Labor & Workforce / Work & Family
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    Three Q: Per Coontz, Equality Is an agenda for all working people, not just feminists.

    Posted on January 16, 2019 in Brief Reports
    Experts: Stephanie Coontz / Virginia Rutter

    3q: Per Coontz, Equality is an Agenda for All Working People, Not Just Feminists Virginia Rutter interviews Stephanie Coontz on the new Council on Contemporary Families brief, Hiring-related Discrimination: Sexist Beliefs and Expectations Hurt both Women’s and Men’s Career Options, by Jill Yavorsky. VR: You edited Jill Yavorsky’s brief on hiring-related discrimination, where she reports […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Gender & Sexuality / Labor & Workforce / Work & Family
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    The Parenthood “Happiness Penalty”: The Effects of Social Policies in 22 Countries

    Posted on May 15, 2018 in Brief Reports
    Experts: Jennifer Glass

    A Brief Report Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center   Jennifer Glass, Robin W. Simon and Matthew A. Andersson Introduction A large body of research has established that parents are less happy than nonparents. The main explanation for this “happiness penalty” is that stressors associated with parenthood – time and […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Public Policy / Work & Family
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    EXPERTS

    Chloe E. Bird

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

    Daniel Carlson

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

    Deborah Carr

    Professor of Sociology, Boston University

    Stephanie Coontz

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

    Robert Crosnoe

    Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

    Connie Gager

    Associate Professor, Department of Family Science & Human Development, Montclair State University

    Kathleen Gerson

    Collegiate Professor of Sociology, New York University

    Jennifer Glass

    Professor of Sociology , University of Texas, Austin

    Janet C. Gornick

    Director, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, Graduate Center CUNY

    Jeffrey Hayes

    Program Director, Institute for Women's Policy Research

    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

    Roberta Iversen

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

    Michelle Janning

    Professor of Sociology, Whitman College

    Gayle Kaufman

    Professor of Sociology and Gender and Sexuality Studies, Davidson College

    Arielle Kuperberg

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

    Ricci Levy

    President and CEO, Woodhull Freedom Foundation

    Susan Matt

    Presidential Distinguished Professor of History, Weber State University

    Melissa Milkie

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

    Christin Munsch

    Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut

    Abigail Ocobock

    Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame

    Irene Padavic

    Professor of Sociology, Florida State University

    Joanna Pepin

    Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo (SUNY)

    Maureen Perry-Jenkins

    Professor of Psychology & Director of Center for Research on Families, University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Elizabeth Peters

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

    Richard Petts

    Professor of Sociology, Ball State University

    Allison Pugh

    Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia

    Aliya Rao

    Assistant Professor fo Methodology, London School of Economics

    Barbara Risman

    Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago

    Sharon Sassler

    Professor, Cornell University

    Susan Short

    Professor of Sociology and Director of the Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University

    Betsey Stevenson

    Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan

    Justin Wolfers

    Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan

    Emma Zang

    Assistant Professor, Yale University

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