Harriet Presser
American demographer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Harriet B. Presser was a sociologist and demographer. Having served on the faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park, for more than 30 years, at the time of her death she was a Distinguished University Professor. She was elected president of the Population Association of America for the year 1989. In addition, she was awarded the Jessie Bernard Award from the American Sociological Association in 2010, and was elected as a Fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2002. As a scholar, she studied the intersection of gender, work and family, and pioneered the sociological specialization in that area. She was widely recognized for bringing a feminist perspective to the demographic study of such issues as fertility, child care, housework, and the effects of the global 24/7 service economy.
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Published Works
- Employment Schedules Among Dual-Earner Spouses and the Division of Household Labor by Gender (1994) (601)
- Working in a 24/7 Economy: Challenges for American Families (2003) (446)
- Nonstandard Work Schedules and Marital Instability (2000) (363)
- Women's Empowerment and Demographic Processes: Moving Beyond Cairo (2000) (313)
- Shift Work and Child Care among Young Dual-Earner American Parents. (1988) (184)
- Toward a 24-Hour Economy (1999) (165)
- Child Care as a Constraint on Employment: Prevalence, Correlates, and Bearing on the Work and Fertility Nexus (1980) (163)
- The Work Schedules of Low-Educated American Women and Welfare Reform. (1997) (128)
- Race-Ethnic and Gender Differences in Nonstandard Work Shifts (2003) (122)
- Some Economic Complexities of Child Care Provided by Grandmothers. (1989) (114)
- Demography feminism and the science-policy nexus. (1997) (113)
- Working in a 24/7 Economy (2005) (108)
- Shift work among American women and child care. (1986) (103)
- The timing of the first birth, female roles and black fertility. (1971) (96)
- Job, family, and gender: Determinants of nonstandard work schedules among employed Americans in 1991 (1995) (89)
- Age Differences Between Spouses (1975) (78)
- Can we make time for children? the economy, work schedules, and child care (1989) (75)
- Gender and Nonstandard Work Hours in 12 European Countries (2008) (74)
- Employment in a 24/7 Economy: Challenges for the Family (2006) (72)
- Nonstandard work schedules over the life course: a first look (2011) (70)
- Age at menarche, socio-sexual behavior, and fertility. (1978) (64)
- Shift Work Among Dual-Earner Couples with Children (1983) (50)
- Early motherhood: Ignorance or bliss? (1974) (46)
- Colonialism, Catholicism, and Contraception: A History of Birth Control in Puerto Rico (1984) (45)
- Gender Differences in the Determinants of Work-Related Overnight Travel among Employed Americans (1996) (42)
- "Age differences between spouses: Trends, patterns, and social implications." (1976) (40)
- Working Time in Transition: The Political Economy of Working Hours in Industrial Nations (1991) (36)
- Social Consequences of Teenage Childbearing. (1975) (29)
- Sally's Corner: Coping with Unmarried Motherhood (1980) (28)
- Sterilization and Fertility Decline in Puerto Rico (1973) (24)
- Decapitating the U.S. Census Bureau's "head of household": feminist mobilization in the 1970s. (1998) (22)
- Work shifts and disability: a national view (2002) (22)
- The role of sterilization in controlling Puerto Rican fertility. (1969) (22)
- Economic development and occupational sex segregation in Puerto Rico: 1950-80. (1991) (20)
- Public Assistance and Early Family Formation is There a Pronatalist Effect (1975) (20)
- The Economy that Never Sleeps (2004) (20)
- The acceptability of contraceptive sterilization among U. S. couples: 1970. (1972) (18)
- Work shifts of full-time dual-earner couples: Patterns and contrasts by sex of spouse (1987) (17)
- Place of Child Care and Medicated Respiratory Illness among Young American Children. (1988) (17)
- Women, Work, and Fertility, 1900-1986. (1989) (16)
- Guessing and misinformation about pregnancy risk among urban mothers. (1977) (16)
- Puerto Rico: recent trends in fertility and sterilization. (1980) (16)
- American women who work at home for pay: distinctions and determinants (1993) (15)
- Job characteristics of spouses and their work shifts (1984) (13)
- Demographic change and response: Social context and the practice of birth control in six countries (2006) (13)
- Comment: [Changing Values and Falling Birth Rates] (1986) (11)
- The state bonus to reward a decrease in 'illegitimacy': flawed methods and questionable effects. (1999) (8)
- Voluntary sterilization - a world view. (1972) (8)
- Feminism and the Status of Women (1972) (7)
- Women and Their Bodies (1973) (7)
- Contraceptive sterilization in the U. S.: 1965 and 1970 (1972) (7)
- Toward a 24-Hour Economy: Implications for the Temporal Structure and Functioning of Family Life (2007) (4)
- Voluntary sterilization: a world view. (1970) (3)
- Women's gender-type occupational mobility in Puerto Rico, 1950 — 80 (2008) (3)
- Childrearing, work, and welfare: Research issues (1978) (3)
- Population, Family and Welfare: A Comparative Survey of European Attitudes (1997) (2)
- Child-care supply and demand: What do we really know? (1992) (2)
- PUERTO RICO: The Role of Sterilization in Controlling Fertility (1969) (2)
- Child Care Use and Constraints in the United States 1 (1982) (1)
- A Gender Perspective for Understanding Low Fertility (2016) (0)
- Population Belongs on the Johannesburg Agenda (2002) (0)
- An evaluation of the Population and Development Project of Battelle Memorial Institute. (1982) (0)
- Battelle Memorial Institute population policy development contract mid-course evaluation. (1979) (0)
- Birth Control and the Control of Motherhood (1978) (0)
- An evaluation of resources for awareness of population impact on development: a project of the Futures Group. (1981) (0)
- The Feminization of Weekend Employment: A Comparative Analysis (2005) (0)
- Population Policy and Women's Rights: Transforming Reproductive Choice. Ruth Dixon-MuellerWomen, the Family, and Policy: A Global Perspective. Esther Ngan-ling Chow , Catherine White Berheide (1996) (0)
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