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    Economic Woes = Family Stress

    Posted on June 19, 2008 in Brief Reports
    Experts: Stephanie Coontz

    By Valerie Adrian, Research Intern Council On Contemporary Families Stephanie Coontz, Co-Chair and Director of Research and Public Education Council on Contemporary Families AMERICANS CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE The Hard Place: Our Housing Crisis In just 10 years, between 1996 and 2006, Americans saw the value of their houses double. As […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / Work & Family
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    Men’s Changing Contribution to Housework and Childcare

    Posted on April 25, 2008 in Brief Reports, Online Symposia


    We believe that the transformation of marriage that has occurred in the comparatively short period of 40 years is too great a break from the past to be dismissed as a slow and grudging evolution that has not fundamentally changed family dynamics. Our ongoing studies of couple relationships reveal instead that change has been continuous and significant, not merely in younger couples who begin their relationship with more flexible ideas about gender, but also in older couples where the wife has worked long enough to change her husband’s values and behaviors.

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    Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Feminism & Families / Work & Family
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    It’s April 15: Do You Know Where Your Income Tax Dollars Are Going?

    Posted on April 15, 2008 in Brief Reports
    Experts: Andrew Cherlin

    Americans tend to think we are better off than families in most other industrial countries because we pay lower income taxes. But when we factor in the higher amount Americans pay for health care, child care, and education, the comparison is not always in our favor. Where do American families’ tax dollars go and what […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / Health & Illness / Health Care / Labor & Workforce / TANF & Public Assistance / Work & Family
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    Women’s Money Matters: Earnings and Housework in Dual-Earners Families

    Posted on September 4, 2007 in Brief Reports


      What reduces women’s housework burden? A new study shows that on average it doesn’t have much to do with her husband’s help or his earnings, but how much money SHE earns. The more she earns, the less housework she does. The old news: For over a decade, people who study how men and women […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Gender & Sexuality / Work & Family
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    Moms and Jobs: Trends in Mothers’ Employment and Which Mothers Stay Home

    Posted on May 10, 2007 in Brief Reports
    Experts: Paula England

      The employment of wives and mothers rose dramatically from 1960 to about 1990, and thereafter has leveled off. There was a small dip from 2000 to 2004, but employment rates had inched back to 2000 levels by 2006, the latest figures available. Contrary to recent press accounts, there has not been an “op-out” revolution. […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Labor & Workforce / Work & Family
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    A “Stalled” Revolution or a Still-Unfolding One?

    Posted on May 4, 2007 in Brief Reports
    Experts: Barbara Risman

    In 1960, only 40 percent of women aged 25-54 years old were in the labor force. By 2000, 70 percent of women that age were employed. For married women with children aged six through seventeen, employment rates grew from 40 percent in 1960 to a peak of almost 80 percent by the new millennium. Sixty percent of married women with children under school age now work for pay, compared to less than 20 percent in 1960. Mothers are still more likely than fathers to work part-time, but they are less likely to do so than they were in the past. Wives work for pay eighty percent of the hours their husbands work for pay, a huge increase since the 1960s.

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    Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Feminism & Families / Gender & Sexuality / Labor & Workforce / Work & Family
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    How Does the U.S. Rank in Work Policies for Individuals and Families?

    Posted on February 1, 2007 in Brief Reports
    Experts: Jeffrey Hayes

    By Jody Heymann, Ph.D. Professor in the Faculties of Medicine and Arts McGill University Founder and Director of the Project on Global Working Families Alison Earle, Ph.D. Project Manager for the Work, Family and Democracy Initiative Harvard University Jeffrey Hayes, Ph.D. Institute for Health & Social Policy McGill University   The Work, Family, and Equity […]

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    Are Mothers Really Leaving the Workplace?

    Posted on March 8, 2006 in Brief Reports


    By Heather Boushey, Ph.D. Senior Economist Center for American Progress Recent media reports claim that mothers are increasingly “opting out” of employment to stay home with their families. But according to a new study released by the Council on Contemporary Families and the Center for Economic and Policy Research, the 20-year trend has been in […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Labor & Workforce / Work & Family
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    Family Policy in the U.S., Japan, Germany, Italy, and France: Parental Leave, Child Benefits, Family Allowances, Child Care, Marriage, Cohabitation, And Divorce.

    Posted on May 1, 2003 in Brief Reports


    Twentieth century social policy in industrial nations was originally formulated on the assumption that one particular family model was both the most prevalent and the most desirable. A family was supposed to consist of a married couple — one male breadwinner and one female homemaker — and their children, and the wages of a man were assumed to be enough to support a wife and children. Almost all women were assumed to be housewives.

    Accordingly, women and children’s access to market income was organized through marriage, as was their access to social insurance. Male workers could claim social insurance benefits for themselves and their dependents from the state, unions, employers and other institutions, but women seldom had any way to make claims independently. When husbands died, widows with children could draw pensions from the state and/or receive aid from the husband’s union, while women without husbands usually had no legal way to make such claims. At the same time, work was organized on the assumption that all men were married to women who could devote their time and labor to the care of children.

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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

    Sarah Damaske

    Associate Professor of Labor and Employment Relations and Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University

    Connie Gager

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

    Katherine Gallagher Robbins

    Director of Family Policy, Center for American Progress

    Kathleen Gerson

    Collegiate Professor of Sociology, New York University

    Jennifer Glass

    Professor of Sociology , University of Texas, Austin

    Rachel Gordon

    Professor of Sociology & Faculty Fellow of the Honors College, University of Illinois at Chicago

    Janet C. Gornick

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

    Jeffrey Hayes

    Program Director, Institute for Women's Policy Research

    Natalie Hengstebeck

    Postdoctoral Fellow, Scholars Strategy Network, Duke University

    Rosanna Hertz

    1919 Reunion Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies, Wellesley College

    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

    Linda McClain

    Robert Kent Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law

    Melissa Milkie

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

    Amanda Miller

    Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair, University of Indianapolis

    Jeylan Mortimer

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

    Christin Munsch

    Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut

    Irene Padavic

    Professor of Sociology, Florida State University

    Joanna Pepin

    NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin

    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

    Barbara Risman

    Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago

    Sharon Sassler

    Professor, Cornell University

    Liana Sayer

    Professor of Sociology, Maryland Population Research Center

    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

    Reeve Vanneman

    Professor, University of Maryland

    Justin Wolfers

    Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan

    Robert Wright

    CEO, Wright Foundation

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