Publications

It might not seem surprising that women provide more unpaid care to family and friends with illness and disability than men. However, is this only true for heterosexual women partnered with men? Are there differences in unpaid caregiving between men and women who identify as sexual minorities?

“Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic about Health Concerns and US Mothers’ Employment” summarizes new research on how mothers’ concerns about community COVID-19 transmission affected their labor force participation.

Family formation has long been touted as a source of racial inequality, but what does the research actually say?

In a new briefing paper for the Council on Contemporary Families, “Mine and Yours, or Ours: Are All Egalitarian Relationships Equal?”, Daniel L. Carlson summarizes his forthcoming research on how the household division of labor in mixed-sex couples affects marital satisfaction for men and women.

On average, children in elementary school watch four and a half hours of television a day: At that rate they see almost 80,000 examples of “sexy girl” role models, in children’s programming alone, every year. A new report details why we should we be concerned about how much more they will watch during school closures due to the pandemic.