- U.S. parents financially support their adult children. But in immigrant families, it’s the reverse.Brief report from CCF Early Career Scholar Dr. Vanessa Delgado shows that parental immigration status shapes adult children’s decisions to “give back” in immigrant families.
- Who Cares and Caring for Whom? Unpaid Caregiving by Gender and Sexual IdentityBrief report from CCF Early Career Scholar Dr. Meredith Zhang summarizes new research on how providing unpaid care for family and friends differs by gender, sexual orientation, and partnership status.
- Best for Whom? Breastfeeding and Child DevelopmentIn a new brief report from CCF, Jessica Su finds that breastfeeding benefits are modest, and reach some children more than others
- Managing the Household is a Stressor for Mothers But Not FathersA new brief report from CCF takes a look at how cognitive labor related to household management influences well-being in different ways for mothers and fathers.
- Between A Rock and A Hard Place: Lessons From The Covid-19 Pandemic About Health Concerns And US Mothers’ EmploymentNew research on how mothers’ concerns about community COVID-19 transmission affects their labor force participation.
- Mine and Yours, or Ours: Are All Egalitarian Relationships Equal?It turns out there is a big difference between dividing up the tasks so that each partner does different ones versus sharing or alternating the same tasks, so that partners contribute equally to each.
- Mothers Are the Primary Earners in Growing Numbers of Families with ChildrenA new study estimates that about 70% of U.S. moms can expect to be primary financial providers before their children turn 18.
- People are Not as Consistent in Their Social Ideologies as We Think: Changing Views on Gender and Race, 1977-2018A new study finds that recognizing one type of inequality doesn’t automatically lead to recognition of another.
- Staying Ready, Staying Vigilant, Staying Safe: Hyperarousal and Hypervigilance in African American Male Adolescents Exposed to Community ViolenceA new study explores how behaviors once seen as maladaptive may actually protect youth.
- The Difference Debt Makes: College Students and Grads on How Student Debt Affects Their Life ChoicesA new study explores the wide-ranging effects of student loan debt on young adults – and what they would do if they were forgiven.
- Media Messages to Young Girls: Does “Sexy Girl” Trump “Girl Power”?Children face continued social isolation this fall, with 21 of the 25 largest school districts in the country choosing remote learning instead of in-person classes.
- “The Tool We Have”: Why Child Protective Services Investigates So Many Families and How Even Good Intentions BackfireA briefing paper prepared by Kelley Fong from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
- Before and during COVID-19: Telecommuting, Work-Family Conflict, and Gender EqualityBefore 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… Read more: Before and during COVID-19: Telecommuting, Work-Family Conflict, and Gender Equality
- Men and Women Agree: During the COVID-19 Pandemic Men Are Doing More at HomeA briefing paper prepared by Daniel L. Carlson (University of Utah), Richard J. Petts (Ball State University), and Joanna R. Pepin (University of Buffalo –… Read more: Men and Women Agree: During the COVID-19 Pandemic Men Are Doing More at Home
- Challenges Facing Cohabiting Couples Differ from those of Married Couples in this CrisisA briefing paper prepared by Amanda Miller, University of Indianapolis, and Sharon Sassler, Cornell University, for the Council on Contemporary Families. Much has been written… Read more: Challenges Facing Cohabiting Couples Differ from those of Married Couples in this Crisis
- When “Helicopters” Go to School: Who Gets Rescued and Who Gets Left Behind?When “Helicopters” Go to School: Who Gets Rescued and Who Gets Left Behind? A briefing paper prepared by Jessica McCrory Calarco, Indiana University, for the… Read more: When “Helicopters” Go to School: Who Gets Rescued and Who Gets Left Behind?
- Hiring-related Discrimination: Sexist Beliefs and Expectations Hurt both Women’s and Men’s Career OptionsHiring-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… Read more: Hiring-related Discrimination: Sexist Beliefs and Expectations Hurt both Women’s and Men’s Career Options
- Three Q: Per Coontz, Equality Is an agenda for all working people, not just feminists.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… Read more: Three Q: Per Coontz, Equality Is an agenda for all working people, not just feminists.
- From Countercultural Trend to Strategy for the Financially Insecure: Premarital Cohabitation and Premarital Cohabitors, 1956-2015A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Arielle Kuperberg, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women and Gender Studies, UNC Greensboro. October… Read more: From Countercultural Trend to Strategy for the Financially Insecure: Premarital Cohabitation and Premarital Cohabitors, 1956-2015
- 3Q: Coontz, Cohabitation, and American Intimacy in Times of Escalating Inequality3q: American Intimacy in a Time of Escalating Inequality A short interview with Stephanie Coontz by Virginia Rutter on a new CCF study. … Read more: 3Q: Coontz, Cohabitation, and American Intimacy in Times of Escalating Inequality
- Same-Sex Couples Devote More Attention to End-of-Life Plans than Heterosexual CouplesA Research Brief Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Research Brief Series Download a PDF of the Brief Mieke Beth… Read more: Same-Sex Couples Devote More Attention to End-of-Life Plans than Heterosexual Couples
- Transgender Youth Allowed to Use Their Chosen Name Have Fewer Mental Health ProblemsA Research Brief Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Research Brief Series Download a PDF of the Brief Stephen T.… Read more: Transgender Youth Allowed to Use Their Chosen Name Have Fewer Mental Health Problems
- Who Goes to Jail for Child Support Debt?A Research Brief Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Research Brief Series Elizabeth Cozzolino Introduction Child support enforcement aims to increase… Read more: Who Goes to Jail for Child Support Debt?
- Community College Students Want to Use More Effective Birth Control Methods But Can’t Always Get What They WantA Research Brief Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Research Brief Series Download a PDF of the Brief Kristine Hopkins,… Read more: Community College Students Want to Use More Effective Birth Control Methods But Can’t Always Get What They Want
- The Impact of Information about Abortion Safety on Texas Voters’ Opinions about Restrictive LawsA Research Brief Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Research Brief Series Download a PDF of the Brief Kari White, Daniel… Read more: The Impact of Information about Abortion Safety on Texas Voters’ Opinions about Restrictive Laws
- Parenting Patterns, Racial Discrimination, and African American Adolescents’ Psychological and Academic OutcomesA Research Brief Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Research Brief Series Fatima Varner, Yang Hou, Tajma Hodzic, Noelle M. Hurd,… Read more: Parenting Patterns, Racial Discrimination, and African American Adolescents’ Psychological and Academic Outcomes
- The Impact of the Zika Epidemic on Women’s Reproductive Intentions and Behaviors in BrazilA Research Brief Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Research Brief Series Download a PDF of the Brief Letícia J.… Read more: The Impact of the Zika Epidemic on Women’s Reproductive Intentions and Behaviors in Brazil
- What are the Effects of Mothers’ and Fathers’ Depression and Thoughts of Death on Their Children’s Level of Parental Connectedness?A Research Brief Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Research Brief Series Susan De Luca, Yan Yueqi, and Yolanda Padilla… Read more: What are the Effects of Mothers’ and Fathers’ Depression and Thoughts of Death on Their Children’s Level of Parental Connectedness?
- Improving Women’s Education Improves Maternal Health: Evidence from PeruA Research Brief Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Research Brief Series Download a PDF of the Brief Abigail Weitzman Introduction… Read more: Improving Women’s Education Improves Maternal Health: Evidence from Peru
- Open Defecation and Anemia in Children: The Case of NepalA Research Brief Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Research Brief Series Download a PDF of the Brief Diane Coffey, Michael… Read more: Open Defecation and Anemia in Children: The Case of Nepal
- How Greater Travel Distance Due to Clinic Closures Reduced Access to Abortion in TexasA Research Brief Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Research Brief Series Download a PDF of the Brief Daniel Grossman, Kari… Read more: How Greater Travel Distance Due to Clinic Closures Reduced Access to Abortion in Texas
- Black Deaths Matter: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Racial Disparities in Relationship Loss and HealthA Research Brief Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Research Brief Series Debra Umberson Introduction Black Americans are more likely than… Read more: Black Deaths Matter: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Racial Disparities in Relationship Loss and Health
- Is Dropping out of High School More Likely after Stressful Life Events?A Research Brief Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Research Brief Series Veronique Dupéré, Eric Dion, Tama Leventhal, Isabelle Archambault,… Read more: Is Dropping out of High School More Likely after Stressful Life Events?
- Cohabitating Couples With Lower Education Levels Marry Less. Is This Because They Do Not Want To?A Research Brief Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Research Brief Series Download a PDF of this Brief Kelly Raley Introduction… Read more: Cohabitating Couples With Lower Education Levels Marry Less. Is This Because They Do Not Want To?
- Perceptions of Shared Power, Gender Conformity, and Marital Quality in Same- and Different-Sex MarriagesA Research Brief Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Research Brief Series Download a PDF of the Brief Amanda M. Pollitt,… Read more: Perceptions of Shared Power, Gender Conformity, and Marital Quality in Same- and Different-Sex Marriages
- The Parenthood “Happiness Penalty”: The Effects of Social Policies in 22 CountriesA Brief Report Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Jennifer Glass, Robin W. Simon and Matthew A. Andersson Introduction… Read more: The Parenthood “Happiness Penalty”: The Effects of Social Policies in 22 Countries
- Do Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Spouses Differ in the Ways They Care for Each Other During Physical Illness?A Brief Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Debra Umberson, Mieke Beth Thomeer, Corinne Reczek, Rachel Donnelly, and Rhiannon… Read more: Do Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Spouses Differ in the Ways They Care for Each Other During Physical Illness?
- CCF BRIEF: Not All Housework is Created Equal: Particular Housework Tasks and Couples’ Relationship QualityNot All Housework is Created Equal: Particular Housework Tasks and Couples’ Relationship Quality A brief report prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Dan… Read more: CCF BRIEF: Not All Housework is Created Equal: Particular Housework Tasks and Couples’ Relationship Quality
- CCF BRIEF: Patterns of Progress? Changes in Gender Ideology 1977-2016Patterns 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,… Read more: CCF BRIEF: Patterns of Progress? Changes in Gender Ideology 1977-2016
- CCF BRIEF: On August 26, 2017, Women’s Equality Day Turns 44On 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… Read more: CCF BRIEF: On August 26, 2017, Women’s Equality Day Turns 44
- CCF BRIEF – A Reversal in Predictors of Sexual Frequency and Satisfaction in MarriageA Reversal in Predictors of Sexual Frequency and Satisfaction in Marriage A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Sharon Sassler, Professor,… Read more: CCF BRIEF – A Reversal in Predictors of Sexual Frequency and Satisfaction in Marriage
- CCF BRIEF: Parenting and Happiness in 22 CountriesSocial Policies, Parenthood, and Happiness in 22 Countries A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Jennifer Glass, University of Texas; Robin… Read more: CCF BRIEF: Parenting and Happiness in 22 Countries
- The Way We Still Never Were: Another Quarter Century of Family Change and DiversityThe Way We Still Never Were: Another Quarter Century of Family Change and Diversity A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by… Read more: The Way We Still Never Were: Another Quarter Century of Family Change and Diversity
- It’s Women’s History Month: Why is pay for caregiving work so low relative to other jobs with similarly low requirements for formal education?It’s Women’s History Month: Why is pay for caregiving work so low relative to other jobs with similarly low requirements for formal education? A… Read more: It’s Women’s History Month: Why is pay for caregiving work so low relative to other jobs with similarly low requirements for formal education?
- The Date’s not Dead after all: New Findings on Hooking Up, Dating and Romantic Relationships in CollegeA Briefing Paper Prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Arielle Kuperberg, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro… Read more: The Date’s not Dead after all: New Findings on Hooking Up, Dating and Romantic Relationships in College
- What Helps Women Entrepreneurs Flourish?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… Read more: What Helps Women Entrepreneurs Flourish?
- Health Care Is a Family Stressor—So There’s Good NewsSeptember 16, 2015; The U.S. Census Bureau’s report on income, poverty and health insurance coverage, released today, reflects the continued uncertainty for U.S. families that… Read more: Health Care Is a Family Stressor—So There’s Good News
- What Happens When Couples Marry after the First Baby?What Happens When Couples Marry after the First Baby? A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Kelly Musick, Cornell University… Read more: What Happens When Couples Marry after the First Baby?
- Gender Revolution and the Restabilization of Family LifeGender Revolution and the Restabilization of Family Life A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Frances Goldscheider, College Park Professor… Read more: Gender Revolution and the Restabilization of Family Life
- Dating Partners Don’t Always Prefer “Their Own Kind”: Some Multiracial Daters Get Bonus Points in the Dating GameDating Partners Don’t Always Prefer “Their Own Kind”: Some Multiracial Daters Get Bonus Points in the Dating Game A briefing paper prepared for the Council… Read more: Dating Partners Don’t Always Prefer “Their Own Kind”: Some Multiracial Daters Get Bonus Points in the Dating Game
- Remarriage in the United States: If at first they don’t succeed, do most Americans “try, try again”?Remarriage in the United States: If at first they don’t succeed, do most Americans “try, try again”? A briefing paper prepared for the Council on… Read more: Remarriage in the United States: If at first they don’t succeed, do most Americans “try, try again”?
- The Origin of Gender Inequalities in Dual-Earner, College Educated Couples: The Division of Labor at the Transition to ParenthoodThe Origin of Gender Inequalities in Dual-Earner, College Educated Couples: The Division of Labor at the Transition to Parenthood A briefing paper prepared for the… Read more: The Origin of Gender Inequalities in Dual-Earner, College Educated Couples: The Division of Labor at the Transition to Parenthood
- The Continuing “Gender Revolution” in Housework and Care: Evidence from Long-term Time-use TrendsThe 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… Read more: The Continuing “Gender Revolution” in Housework and Care: Evidence from Long-term Time-use Trends
- The Complexities of Interpreting Changing Household PatternsThe Complexities of Interpreting Changing Household Patterns A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families Online Symposium on Housework, Gender, and Parenthood by… Read more: The Complexities of Interpreting Changing Household Patterns
- First comes love, then comes…housework?First comes love, then comes…housework? A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families Online Symposium on Housework, Gender, and Parenthood by Arielle Kuperberg,… Read more: First comes love, then comes…housework?
- A Review of National Crime Victim Victimization Findings on Rape and Sexual AssaultA Review of National Crime Victim Victimization Findings on Rape and Sexual Assault A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families Online Symposium… Read more: A Review of National Crime Victim Victimization Findings on Rape and Sexual Assault
- Sexual Assault On CampusSexual Assault on Campus A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families Online Symposium on Intimate Partner Violence by Elizabeth Armstrong, Professor of… Read more: Sexual Assault On Campus
- The Tricky Business of Sorting Out Sexual Assault: An Introduction to The CCF Symposium On Intimate Partner ViolenceTHE TRICKY BUSINESS OF SORTING OUT SEXUAL ASSAULT: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CCF SYMPOSIUM ON INTIMATE VIOLENCE by Stephanie Coontz , Director of Research and Public… Read more: The Tricky Business of Sorting Out Sexual Assault: An Introduction to The CCF Symposium On Intimate Partner Violence
- Interpersonal Violence and the Great Crime DropInterpersonal Violence and the Great Crime Drop A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families Online Symposium on Intimate Partner Violence by Samuel… Read more: Interpersonal Violence and the Great Crime Drop
- Women Not Enrolled in Four-Year Universities and Colleges Have Higher Risk of Sexual AssaultWomen Not Enrolled in Four-Year Universities and Colleges Have Higher Risk of Sexual Assault A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families Online… Read more: Women Not Enrolled in Four-Year Universities and Colleges Have Higher Risk of Sexual Assault
- America’s Fragmented Child Care and Early Education SystemAMERICA’S FRAGMENTED CHILD CARE AND EARLY EDUCATION SYSTEM A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Sara Gable, Associate Professor of… Read more: America’s Fragmented Child Care and Early Education System
- “Daddy’s Home!” Increasing Men’s Use of Paternity Leave“DADDY’S HOME!” INCREASING MEN’S USE OF PATERNITY LEAVE This briefing is based on a study by Dr. Ankita Patnaik. The original paper is available here and is… Read more: “Daddy’s Home!” Increasing Men’s Use of Paternity Leave
- The Moynihan Report, Then and NowFor the 50th Anniversary of the Moynihan Report, this briefing paper was prepared as part of an online symposium Moynihan+50: Family Structure Still not the… Read more: The Moynihan Report, Then and Now
- Moynihan’s Half Century: Have We Gone to Hell in a Hand Basket?This briefing paper was prepared as part of an online symposium Moynihan+50: Family Structure Still not the Problem for the Council on Contemporary Families and… Read more: Moynihan’s Half Century: Have We Gone to Hell in a Hand Basket?
- An Analysis of New Census Data on Family Structure, Education, and IncomeAn Analysis of New Census Data on Family Structure, Education, and Income A report and commentary prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families prepared for… Read more: An Analysis of New Census Data on Family Structure, Education, and Income
- Child-Rearing Norms and Practices in Contemporary American FamiliesThe majority of American parents are doing well on key parenting indicators, despite some differences by family type. But America has higher proportions of poor… Read more: Child-Rearing Norms and Practices in Contemporary American Families
- Family Diversity is the New Normal for America’s ChildrenPeople often think of social change in the lives of American children since the 1950s as a movement in one direction – from children being raised in married, male-breadwinner families to a new norm of children being raised by working mothers, many of them unmarried. Instead, we can better understand this transformation as an explosion of diversity, a fanning out from a compact center along many different pathways.
- Brief: Back on Track? The Stall and Rebound in Support for Women’s New Roles in Work and Politics, 1977-2012Six charts demonstrate a renewed progress towards gender equality starting around 2006.
- Brief: It’s Not Just Attitudes: Marriage Is Also Becoming More EgalitarianHusbands and wives who share similar levels of education now enjoy a lower risk of divorce than those in which husbands have more education—a trend consistent with a shift toward egalitarian marriages.
- Brief: Overwork May Explain 10 Percent of Men’s Wage Advantage Over WomenThe growing wage premium for long work hours slows progress toward gender equality. If the relative hourly wages for overwork had stayed constant between 1979 and 2007, the gender gap in wages would be about 10 percent smaller than it is today.
- Brief: Is the Glass Half Empty, or Three-Quarters Full?This look at sexual frequency among younger couples in equal marriages refutes recent claims that when a man share the housework equally, it is bad for the couple’s sex life.
- CCF Research Brief: Really? Work lowers people’s stress levelsNational surveys and other studies continuously tell us that work is a major source of stress for Americans. But this study has found that people have significantly lower levels of stress at work than at home. These low levels of cortisol may help explain a long-standing finding that has always been hard to reconcile with the idea that work is a major source of stress: People who work have better mental and physical health than their non-working peers.
- Experts Respond to: “Does Premarital Cohabitation Raise Your Risk for Divorce?”Experts recommend we delay, protect, and look for more change in the future.
- Does Premarital Cohabitation Raise Your Risk of Divorce?By Arielle Kuperberg The University of North Carolina at Greensboro atkuperb@uncg.edu In the last 50 years, the percentage of men and women who cohabit before… Read more: Does Premarital Cohabitation Raise Your Risk of Divorce?
- CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Women’s Changing Social Status since the Civil Rights ActToday the Council on Contemporary Families releases the third set of papers in a three part symposium marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. The first two sets of papers described changes in America’s religious and racial-ethnic landscape in the half century since it became illegal to discriminate on the basis of religion, skin color, national origin, race, ethnicity or gender.
- CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Dilemmas Facing High-Achieving Career WomenBy Joan C. Williams University of California, Hastings College of the Law Fifty years after discrimination on the basis of sex was outlawed, women have… Read more: CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Dilemmas Facing High-Achieving Career Women
- CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Civil Rights for Women, 1964-2014By Max Coleman, Research Intern Council on Contemporary Families Fifty years ago, the United States adopted the Civil Rights Act, prohibiting discrimination on the basis… Read more: CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Civil Rights for Women, 1964-2014
- CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Racial-Ethnic Realities since the Civil Rights ActOverview: Changing Racial-Ethnic Realities since the Civil Rights Act Remarks by: Stephanie Coontz Today the Council on Contemporary Families releases the second set of papers… Read more: CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Racial-Ethnic Realities since the Civil Rights Act
- CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Are African Americans Living the Dream 50 Years After Passage of the Civil Rights Act?By Velma McBride Murry and Na Liu Vanderbilt University In 1963, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made his famous “I Have a Dream” speech… Read more: CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Are African Americans Living the Dream 50 Years After Passage of the Civil Rights Act?
- CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Changes in America’s Racial and Ethnic Composition Since 1964By Raha Forooz Sabet University of Miami When the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, racial differences in the United States were almost literally… Read more: CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Changes in America’s Racial and Ethnic Composition Since 1964
- CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Changes in Interracial MarriageBy Kimberlyn Fong Mount Holyoke College In the past 50 years there has been a true revolution in American attitudes toward interracial marriage. In the… Read more: CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Changes in Interracial Marriage
- CCF Civil Rights Symposium: The State of Latino ChildrenBy Rogelio Sáenz University of Texas at San Antonio Latinos are increasingly driving the demographic fortunes of the United States. Between 2000 and 2011, the… Read more: CCF Civil Rights Symposium: The State of Latino Children
- CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Religion and RelationshipsThe Council on Contemporary Families asked a dozen researchers to discuss what has changed in the past half century for each of the populations affected by the law – religious groups, racial and ethnic minorities, and women. Today, February 4, the Council is releasing an update on the changing religious landscape of America.
- CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Interfaith Marriage and Romantic Unions in the United StatesDavid McClendon from the University of Texas-Austin, traces the increase in the proportion of marriages contracted between couples from different religious traditions. Even more dramatic has been the increase in the number of marriages where both partners maintain their separate beliefs and practices, rather than one or both changing so that their religions match. The proportion of mixed-religion marriages has doubled since the 1960s.
- CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Fifty Years of Religious Change: 1964-2014In 1964 the provisions outlawing discrimination on the basis of religion were less controversial than those against discrimination on the basis of race and sex, even though blatant bigotry and outright violence against Catholics and Jews had been pervasive in American history right up through World War II. Prejudices had begun to ease by the early 1960s, but the Civil Rights Act remains an important safeguard for religious (and non-religious) minorities, according to Jerry Z. Park, Joshua Tom and Brita Andercheck, of Baylor University.
- Was the War on Poverty a Failure? Or are Anti-Poverty Efforts Simply Swimming Against a Stronger Tide?This month marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s declaration of an “unconditional war on poverty.” Yet this month also marks over a quarter century since President Ronald Reagan’s 1988 announcement that the war on poverty was over, and that poverty had won. In this report, University of Maryland sociologist Philip Cohen examines the many early victories, as well as the setbacks in the War on Poverty.
- Promoting marriage among single mothers: An ineffective weapon in the war on poverty?This month marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s declaration of an “unconditional war on poverty.” Yet this month also marks over a quarter century since President Ronald Reagan’s 1988 announcement that the war on poverty was over, and that poverty had won. Many politicians blame the resurgence of poverty on the spread of unwed motherhood and conclude that promoting marriage among low-income individuals would do more to reduce poverty than government investments. In this report, Ohio State University sociologist Kristi Williams examines how efforts to get impoverished single mothers to marry are unlikely to make much of a dent in poverty rates and may even have some harmful outcomes for mothers and children alike.
- Experts Respond to: “In School, Good Looks Help and Good Looks Hurt (But They Mostly Help)”Experts respond to a new briefing report for the Council on Contemporary Families that documents how the way you look affects your life prospects.
- In School, Good Looks Help and Good Looks Hurt (But They Mostly Help)How do your looks affect your life? Is being attractive or unattractive a source of systematic social inequalities in people’s access to wealth, power and privilege? Should we add “beauty bias” to racism and sexism as a type of unacceptable discrimination? A new briefing report for the Council on Contemporary Families documents how the way you look affects your life prospects.
- Gender Bias and the Fight for Equal PayBy Sheryl Sandberg Chief Operating Officer, Facebook and Founder, www.leanin.org For more information, or to arrange an interview, contact Andrea Saul: press@leanin.org In 1947, Anita… Read more: Gender Bias and the Fight for Equal Pay
- Which Policies Promote Gender Pay Equality?By Joya Misra Professor of Sociology & Public Policy University of Massachusetts, Amherst misra@soc.umass.edu; 413-545-5969 Why do women earn less than men? Research points to… Read more: Which Policies Promote Gender Pay Equality?
- Gender Equality: Family Egalitarianism Follows Workplace OpportunityBy Philip N. Cohen University of Maryland Gender inequality within families is reciprocally related to gender inequality in the paid workplace. That is why one of the… Read more: Gender Equality: Family Egalitarianism Follows Workplace Opportunity
- Happy Birthday Equal Pay: Pregnancy Accommodation as the New FrontierBy Joan C. Williams, Director of the Center for WorkLife Law, Hastings Foundation Chair, University of California, Hastings College of the Law williams@uchastings.edu; (415) 565-4706… Read more: Happy Birthday Equal Pay: Pregnancy Accommodation as the New Frontier
- The Wrong Route to Equality: Men’s Declining WagesBy Heidi Shierholz Labor Market Economist Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC hshierholz@epi.org, (202) 775-8810 In the late 1970s, after a long period of holding fairly… Read more: The Wrong Route to Equality: Men’s Declining Wages
- Men against Women, or the Top 20 Percent against the Bottom 80?By Leslie McCall Professor of Sociology and Political Science Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research Northwestern University l-mccall@northwestern.edu It used to be that the most… Read more: Men against Women, or the Top 20 Percent against the Bottom 80?
- Equal Pay? Not Yet for MothersBy Shelley J. Correll Professor of Sociology Director Clayman Institute for Gender Research Stanford University scorrell@stanford.edu; 650-721-1736 Last month, hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones set… Read more: Equal Pay? Not Yet for Mothers
- Trends in Global Gender EquityBy Stephanie Seguino Professor of Economics University of Vermont stephanie.seguino@uvm.edu; 802.656.0187 First the good news: Gender parity has already been reached in secondary educational enrollment… Read more: Trends in Global Gender Equity
- From the Folks Who Brought you the Weekend: What Unions Do for WomenThe Equal Pay Act is often presumed to be an accomplishment of the feminist movement of the 1960s. In fact, it was spearheaded by female trade unionists, who first introduced the bill in 1945 as an amendment to the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act. The bill was defeated, largely because of staunch opposition from business interests, but a coalition of labor activists reintroduced it every year until it finally passed in 1963.
- The Gender Pay Gap by Race and EthnicityOn average, white women earn 81 percent of what white men make. At first glance it may appear that there is more gender equality among minority men and women than among whites. Hispanic or Latina women make 88 percent of what Latinos do and African American women make 90 percent of what their male counterparts make. But when we add race to gender, these pay gaps become a veritable chasm. Read more to find out.
- The Trouble with Averages: The Impact of Major Life Events and Acute Stress May Not Be What You ThinkDownload Full Report as a PDF Download Full Report as a Word Document All those advice books that tell you what to expect when you… Read more: The Trouble with Averages: The Impact of Major Life Events and Acute Stress May Not Be What You Think