Gender and Family

2017–2018 Radcliffe Institute Fellows Selected

May 4, 2017

Professors Alexandra Killewald and Devah Pager were selected as Radcliffe Institute Fellows for the 2017-18 academic year. Hope Harvey will be a Graduate Student Fellow at the Institute. See the list of fellows and read about their research here.... Read more about 2017–2018 Radcliffe Institute Fellows Selected

What if Sociologists had as much influence as Economists?

March 17, 2017

"[Sociology] may not have the ear of presidents but may actually do a better job of explaining what has gone wrong in large swaths of the United States and other advanced nations in recent years."... Read more about What if Sociologists had as much influence as Economists?

Congratulations to Jasmin Sandelson

March 9, 2017

Congratulations to Jasmin Sandelson, whose qualifying paper "Relational Resources: Poverty, Peer Support, and Adolescent Wellbeing" received the graduate student paper award from the Youth, Aging and the Life Course section of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

2017 Mar 21

Mari Ruti: The Disenchanted: Queer Theory Between Negativity and Flourishing

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location:

Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall

Dudley House and Harvard College Office of BGLTQ Student Life presentation by Mari Ruti, Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory and of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Toronto.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology

2017 Apr 04

Sociology Department Colloquium Series presentation by Jennifer Glass: The Lie That Wouldn’t Die: Do Women’s Preferences Really Explain their Labor Market Disadvantage?

3:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

William James Hall 450

Sociology Department Colloquium Series presentation by Jennifer Glass, University of Texas, Austin.

The Lie That Wouldn’t Die: Do Women’s Preferences Really Explain their Labor Market Disadvantage?

2017 Apr 20

David Paternotte: Unpacking Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe

4:15pm to 6:00pm

Location:

Center for European Studies, Hoffmann Room, Busch Hall

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion presentation by David Paternotte – Lecturer in Sociology, Université libre de Bruxelles.

2017 Feb 28

Silke Roth and Georgina Waylen: Varieties of European Women's Movements?

2:15pm to 4:00pm

Location:

Center for European Studies, Hoffmann Room, Busch Hall

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion presentation by Silke Roth – Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Southampton and ...

2017 Feb 23

Mary Brinton: Two Worlds of Postindustrial Fertility

4:00pm

Location:

CGIS Room S153, South Building (1737 Cambridge St.)

Sponsored by the Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality, a presentation by Mary Brinton: “Two Worlds of Postindustrial Fertility.”

2017 Feb 16

Yulya Truskinovsky: Childcare Subsidies and Intra-Family Transfers

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

HCPDS, 9 Bow St. Harvard Square

Social Demography Seminar presentation by Yulya Truskinovsky, PhD, Sloan Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.

Man in suit and woman in wedding dress walk through snow, with backs to the camera

How work, gender norms, and money shape the risk of divorce

February 1, 2017

Through the second half of the 20^th century, American women participated in the labor force at increasing rates. Divorce rates also rose rapidly in the 1960s and 1970s, raising concerns that the trends were related: perhaps marriages became less stable because women were no longer dependent on men for their financial well-being.

Couples’ Division of Paid and Unpaid Labor Linked to Risk of Divorce

November 28, 2016

A new study conducted by Alexandra Killewald suggests that financial factors, including couples’ overall resources and wives’ ability to support themselves in the event of a divorce, are not predictive of whether marriages last.... Read more about Couples’ Division of Paid and Unpaid Labor Linked to Risk of Divorce

2016 Nov 01

Mary C. Brinton and Eunsil Oh: Gender Inequality and Fertility in Japan and South Korea

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location:

Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, presentation by

Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University.

Eunsil Oh, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, Harvard University.

Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.

SOC 3323 Social Demography

The Social Demography Seminar at the Center for Population and Development Studies provides a lively forum for scholars from across the university to discuss in-progress social scientific and population research. Social demography includes work that uses demographic methods to describe and explain the distribution of social goods across populations. The Social Demography Seminar thus welcomes presentations on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, race/ethnicity, population health--including mortality, morbidity, and functional health--inequality, im/migration, fertility, and...

Mary Brinton stands in front of a building on Harvard's Cambridge campus.

Gender Equity and Low Fertility in Postindustrial Societies

May 17, 2016

Progress towards gender equality was substantial on many fronts in the decades leading up to the 1990s. Since then, movement towards gender equality has slowed. The gender wage gap has narrowed at a slower pace in the past 20 years, and the same can be said for occupational sex segregation. Postindustrial societies show variation in these patterns and in the consequences that ensue.... Read more about Gender Equity and Low Fertility in Postindustrial Societies

Kahrl Award for Excellence in Teaching

May 3, 2016

Alexandra Killewald is the recipient of this year's Kahrl Award for Excellence in Teaching.... Read more about Kahrl Award for Excellence in Teaching

Department of Sociology

Gender and Family

2017–2018 Radcliffe Institute Fellows Selected

What if Sociologists had as much influence as Economists?

Congratulations to Jasmin Sandelson

Mari Ruti: The Disenchanted: Queer Theory Between Negativity and Flourishing

Location:

Sociology Department Colloquium Series presentation by Jennifer Glass: The Lie That Wouldn’t Die: Do Women’s Preferences Really Explain their Labor Market Disadvantage?

Location:

David Paternotte: Unpacking Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe

Location:

Silke Roth and Georgina Waylen: Varieties of European Women's Movements?

Location:

Mary Brinton: Two Worlds of Postindustrial Fertility

Location:

Yulya Truskinovsky: Childcare Subsidies and Intra-Family Transfers

Location:

How work, gender norms, and money shape the risk of divorce

Couples’ Division of Paid and Unpaid Labor Linked to Risk of Divorce

Mary C. Brinton and Eunsil Oh: Gender Inequality and Fertility in Japan and South Korea

Location:

SOC 3323 Social Demography

Gender Equity and Low Fertility in Postindustrial Societies

Kahrl Award for Excellence in Teaching

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