Kathleen Gerson

Collegiate Professor of Sociology, New York University

Research Expertise

Gender
Family
Work
Life Course
Qualitative Methods
Sociology and Political Science
Anthropology
History
Gender Studies
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Economics and Econometrics
Development
Political Science and International Relations
Management of Technology and Innovation
Education
Cultural Studies
Social Psychology
LPN and LVN
Advanced and Specialized Nursing
Assessment and Diagnosis
Critical Care Nursing
Emergency Nursing
Condensed Matter Physics
Urban Studies
Geography, Planning and Development
Industrial relations
Health (social science)
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Public Administration

About

Kathleen Gerson is a leading figure in the field of family sociology and social change. She has been a Collegiate Professor at New York University since 2007. She is the author of over a dozen books, most recently The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation Is Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender in America (2010), which has been translated into eight languages. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Publications

The Time Divide
Unknown Venue
2005
Hard Choices
Unknown Venue
2019
Networks and Places: Social Relations in the Urban Setting.Claude S. Fischer , Robert Max Jackson , C. Ann Stueve , Kathleen Gerson , Lynne McCallister Jones , Mark Baldassare
American Journal of Sociology
1981
No Man's Land: Men's Changing Commitments to Family and Work. By Kathleen Gerson. Basic Books, 1993. 366 pp. $25.00
Social Forces
1995
Unfinished revolution : how a new generation is reshaping family, work and gender in America by Kathleen Gerson
Asian Women
2012
Overworked Individuals or Overworked Families?
Work and Occupations
2001
Observation and Interviewing: Options and Choices in Qualitative Research
Qualitative Research in Action
2002
Who Are the Overworked Americans?
Review of Social Economy
1998
Book Review: The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation Is Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender in America. By Kathleen Gerson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, 320 pp., $24.95 (cloth)
Gender & Society
2010
Moral Dilemmas, Moral Strategies, and the Transformation of Gender
Gender & Society
2002
Determinants of Responsibility for Child Care Arrangements among Dual-Earner Couples
Journal of Marriage and the Family
1992
Understanding work and family through a gender lens
Community, Work & Family
2004
Changing Lives, Resistant Institutions: A New Generation Negotiates Gender, Work, and Family Change
Sociological Forum
2009
Gender, Parenting, and The Rise of Remote Work During the Pandemic: Implications for Domestic Inequality in the United States
Gender & Society
2021
Generative fathering: Beyond deficit perspectives
Personality and Individual Differences
1997
Work- and family-related variables, work–family conflict and women's well-being: some observations
Community, Work & Family
2003
Emerging Social Divisions Among Women: Implications for Welfare State Politics
Politics & Society
1987
The Science and Art of Interviewing
Unknown Venue
2020
Fighting for time: shifting boundaries of work and social life
Choice Reviews Online
2005
Do Americans Feel Overworked?
The Time Divide
2005
The Time Divide
Unknown Venue
2005
Unpacking Americans’ Views of the Employment of Mothers and Fathers Using National Vignette Survey Data
Gender & Society
2015
Reshaping Fatherhood: The Social Construction of Shared Parenting
Contemporary Sociology
1999
The Work-Home Crunch
Contexts
2004
What Do Women Want From Men?
American Behavioral Scientist
1986
Commuter Marriage: A Study of Work and Family. By Naomi Gerstel and Harriet Gross. Guilford Press, 1984. 228 pp. $17.50
Social Forces
1986
Looking for more than a few good men
Nursing
2003
Dilemmas of Involved Fatherhood
Gender And Work In Today's World
2018
Book reviews and notices : DAVID M. NEWMAN, Sociology: Exploring the architecture of everyday life. Thousand Oaks, California: Pine Forge Press, 1995. xxx + 547 pp. Figs, plates, tables, refs., gloss., index AND DAVID M. NEWMAN, ed., Sociology: Exploring the architecture of everyday life (READINGS). Thousand Oaks, California: Pine Forge Press, 1995. xviii + 339 pp. Figs., plates, tables, notes, refs
Contributions to Indian Sociology
1998
Back Cover: Advanced Engineering Materials 3∕2015
Advanced Engineering Materials
2015
Changing Family Structure and the Position of Women A Review of the Trends
Journal of the American Planning Association
1983
24. Children of the Gender Revolution: Some Theoretical Questions and Findings from the Field
Restructuring Work and the Life Course
2001
Viewing 21st Century Motherhood Through a Work-Family Lens
Handbook of Work-Family Integration
2008
Social Structure and Social Control in Synanon
Journal of Voluntary Action Research
1974
Changing Family Patterns
Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
2015
Continuing controversies in the sociology of gender
Sociological Forum
1990
Briefcase, baby or both?
PsycEXTRA Dataset
1986
Resolving Family Dilemmas and Conflicts: Beyond Utopia
Contemporary Sociology
2000
The logics of work, care and gender change in the new economy
Work–Family Dynamics
2017
Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China. London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1993. 696 pages. £ 7.99
Indian Journal of Gender Studies
1994
Allison J. Pug (dir.), Beyond the Cubicle: Job Insecurity, Intimacy and the Flexible Self
Sociologie du travail
2018
A Social-Structural Explanation of Men's and Women's Domestic Responsibility: A Reply to Hawkins and Olsen
Journal of Marriage and the Family
1993
Childhood Place Attachments
Place Attachment
1992
2. The Family. “There’s No Such Thing as Having It All: Gender, Work, and Care in an Age of Insecurity”
Gender in the Twenty-First Century
2019
Expansionist Theory Expanded: Integrating Sociological and Psychological Perspectives on Gender, Work, and Family Change
Gender and Couple Relationships
2015
The Expanding Workweek? Understanding Trends in Long Work Hours Among U.S. Men, 1979-2004
Unknown Venue
2005
Time Greedy Workplaces and Marriageable Men: The Paradox in Men’s Fathering Beliefs and Strategies
Men, Wage Work and Family
2012
Another Cautionary Note on Interpreting Regression Results in Family Research: A Comment on Peterson and Gerson (1992)
Journal of Marriage and the Family
1993
CHAPTER 7. The Gentle Men’s Circle
Gay Voluntary Associations in New York
2014
AftertheFalloftheGenderBarriers - Gøsta Esping-Andersen, The Incomplete Revolution: Adapting to Women’s New Roles (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2009).
European Journal of Sociology
2010
Verlaufsformen von Familienbeziehungen.
Wem gehört die Familie der Zukunft?
2006
Trust without paper
Work Study
2003
Council on Nutritional Anthropology
Anthropology News
2003
Changing Attitudes toward Family Issues in the United States
Journal of Marriage and the Family
1989
The Time Divide
The Inequality Reader
2018
Why are Women more Religious than Men?
Unknown Venue
2012
States, families and work–life articulation
Employment and the Family
2006
Institutional Support for Morality
Nurturing Morality
2004
Who are the overworked Americans?
Working Time
2013
Social Work with the Aged and Their Families
Family Relations
1988
5. Veering Toward Domesticity
Hard Choices
2019
The Time Divide: Work, Family and Gender Inequality. Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson
Administrative Science Quarterly
2006
The Time Divide: Work, Family and Gender Inequality By Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson Harvard University Press, 2004. $45 (cloth), $19.95 (paper)
Social Forces
2006
Gender Vertigo: American Families in Transition
Contemporary Sociology
1999
Dismantling the "Gendered Family": Breadwinning, Gender, and the Family Values Debate
Contemporary Sociology
1998
Peer Marriage: How Love between Equals Really Works.
Contemporary Sociology
1995
The Sexual Rights of Adolescents: Competence, Vulnerability, and Parental Control.
Contemporary Sociology
1985
Beyond the lines: gender, work, and care in the new economy - a view from the U.S.
Research Handbook on Work–Life Balance
2022
The Structure and Culture of Work
The Time Divide
2005
Beyond the Cubicle: Job Insecurity, Intimacy, and the Flexible Self
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews
2018
Life Study Birth component father/partner consent form
Unknown Venue
2016
Men Marry What They Need
Poems of Love and Marriage
1989
Introducing the Sociology of Families and Households
The Family
2012
Topic #3 Taking Time to Save Time: Delegating to Paraeducators
TEACHING Exceptional Children
2000
New task force on health psychology
PsycEXTRA Dataset
2001
Rôlessexuésincertains - Kathleen Gerson, The Unfinished Revolution: How a New generation is Reshaping Family, Work and Gender in America (Oxford, Oxford Universityt Press, 2009).
European Journal of Sociology
2010

Education

University of California Berkeley

Ph.D., Sociology

Berkeley, California, United States of America

Stanford University

BA, Sociology / 1969

Stanford, California, United States of America

Experience

New York University

Collegiate Professor

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