Publications

A new briefing report for the Council on Contemporary Families documents how one's appearance affects their life prospects.

Two new studies from Gender & Society turn attention to areas in which men have long been ignored: at home, in the study of conception, pregnancy, and childbirth, and at work, in the caregiving professions—particularly nursing. New research demonstrates under what conditions men’s contributions are slowly becoming more visible and what the benefits of that are (and can be).

Researchers have long known that people make assumptions about people’s race based on social status cues, but a new study from Gender & Society demonstrates that observers take into account a wide range of factors in determining the race of people they see, including what they know about someone’s income, home address or marital status.

Back in the 1800s, the U.S. labor movement aimed at reducing impossibly long working hours—and succeeded with the Adamson Act in 1916, which gave us the 40-hour work week. A century later, that’s all changed.

Some of the gender gaps in schooling are new, while some have been persistent for a long time. For approximately 100 years, the authors explain, girls have consistently outperformed boys in grades. However, it was not until the 1970s that women began to catch up to—and surpass—men in terms of college and graduate school graduation rates.