Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. 1981 (sociology), M.A. (sociology), California (Berkeley); B.A. (magna cum laude) 1969 (sociology), Stanford.

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Affiliations:

President-Elect, Eastern Sociological Society; Nominations Committee, American Sociological Association; Board Member, Council on Contemporary Families; Fellow, Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University; Editorial Board, American Sociological Review; Editorial Board, Work and Occupations; Past Chair, Family Section of ASA; 1998 Feminist Lecturer, Sociologists for Women in Society.

Fellowships/Honors:

Incoming Chair, Family Section, American Sociological Association; SWS Feminist Lectureship on Women and Social Change; Research Grant, The Sloan Foundation; Invited Presentation, International Symposium on Restructuring Work and the Life Course.

Selected Works:

	No Man's Land: Men's Changing Commitments to Family and Work. New York: Basic Books, 1993.
	Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhood. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985.
	The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality. co-authored with Jerry Jacobs. Cambridge,MA: Harvard University Press. 2004.

"Children of the Gender Revolution: Some Theoretical Questions and Findings from the Field." In Victor W. Marshall, Wlater R. Heinz, Helga Krueger, and Anil Verma (eds.), Restructuring Work and the Life Course. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

"Overworked Individuals or Overworked Families? Explaining Trends in Work, Leisure, and Family Time." (with Jerry Jacobs) Work and Occupations 28 (February).

"Families as Trajectories: Children’s Views of Family Life in Contemporary America.”  In Families Between Flexibility and Dependability: Perspectives for a Life Cycle Family Policy (2006). Click here to read.

“Understanding Work and Family Through a Gender Lens.” in Journal of Community, Work, and Family. January 2004. Click here to read.

“The Morality of Time.” in Dissent, special issue on contemporary politics. Click here to read.

“The Work-Home Crunch.” (with Jerry A. Jacobs) Contexts: Understanding People in Their Social Worlds 3 (4) (Fall, 2004) : 29-37. Click here to read. 

“Understanding Changes in American Working Time: A Synthesis.” co-authored with Jerry Jacobs in Rethinking Time at Work edited by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Arne Kalleberg. November 2003. Click here to read.

Work Without Worry. op ed. New York Times.May 11, 2003. Click here to read.

“Moral Dilemmas, Moral Strategies, and the Transformation of Gender: Lessons from Two Generations of Work and Family Change.” Gender & Society 16 (1) (February, 2002):  8-28. Click here to read.

Working Moms Heading Home? Not Likely. op ed. Click here to read. 

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