Kathleen Gerson | Academic Influence

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Kathleen Gerson

Sociology

#1624

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#1835

Historical Rank

#591

USA Rank

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Kathleen Gerson's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Kathleen Gerson is an American sociologist. She is considered as an authority on such subjects as gender equality particularly within relationships and marriages, changing gender roles, family housework patterns, travel patterns, finances and how they affect household formation, and other aspects of changing family life. Her research is often based on qualitative interviews. She is a tenured professor at New York University.

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Kathleen Gerson's Published Works

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Published Works

Hard choices : how women decide about work, career, and motherhood (1985) (564)
The Time Divide (2005) (557)
No Man's Land: Men's Changing Commitments To Family And Work (1993) (375)
Overworked Individuals or Overworked Families? (2001) (358)
The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation is Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender in America (2009) (329)
The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality (The Family and Public Policy) (2005) (214)
Observation and Interviewing: Options and Choices in Qualitative Research (2002) (196)
Networks and Places (1977) (188)
Moral Dilemmas, Moral Strategies, and the Transformation of Gender (2002) (180)
The unfinished revolution : coming of age in a new era of gender, work, and family (2011) (158)
Determinants of Responsibility for Child Care Arrangements among Dual-Earner Couples. (1992) (88)
Changing Lives, Resistant Institutions: A New Generation Negotiates Gender, Work, and Family Change1 (2009) (74)
Understanding work and family through a gender lens (2004) (74)
Gender, Parenting, and The Rise of Remote Work During the Pandemic: Implications for Domestic Inequality in the United States (2021) (57)
Emerging Social Divisions Among Women: Implications for Welfare State Politics (1987) (44)
Personal Relations Across the Life Cycle (1977) (40)
Changing the Structure and Culture of Work: Work-Family Conflict, Work Flexibility, and Gender Equity in the Modern Workplace (2001) (35)
Unpacking Americans’ Views of the Employment of Mothers and Fathers Using National Vignette Survey Data (2016) (34)
Understanding changes in American working time: A synthesis (2006) (26)
The Science and Art of Interviewing (2020) (24)
The Work-Home Crunch (2004) (23)
Conducting Interviews (2020) (18)
Analyzing Interviews (2020) (18)
Toward a Family-Friendly, Gender-Equitable Work Week (1999) (17)
Attachment to Place (2021) (15)
What Do Women Want From Men? (1986) (15)
Changing Family Structure and the Position of Women A Review of the Trends (1983) (11)
Do Americans Feel Overworked?: Comparing Actual and Ideal Working Time (2000) (10)
Continuing controversies in the sociology of gender (1990) (10)
Viewing 21st Century Motherhood Through a Work-Family Lens (2008) (10)
24. Children of the Gender Revolution: Some Theoretical Questions and Findings from the Field (2001) (8)
Resolving family dilemmas and conflicts: Beyond Utopia (2000) (8)
Changing Family Patterns (2015) (7)
The logics of work, care and gender change in the new economy (2017) (7)
Work, Family, and Organizations (2006) (7)
What Do Women and Men Want? How Our System Contributes to Gender Conflicts Over Work, Parenting, and Marriage (2007) (7)
Time-Greedy Workplaces and Marriageable Men: The Paradox in Men's Fathering Beliefs and Strategies (2012) (4)
Social Structure and Social Control in Synanon (1974) (4)
Hard Choices (2019) (3)
The morality of time: Women and the expanding workweek (2004) (3)
Expansionist Theory Expanded: Integrating Sociological and Psychological Perspectives on Gender, Work, and Family Change (2016) (2)
A Social-Structural Explanation of Men's and Women's Domestic Responsibility: A Reply to Hawkins and Olsen (1993) (2)
2. The Family. “There’s No Such Thing as Having It All: Gender, Work, and Care in an Age of Insecurity” (2019) (2)
Dismantling the "Gendered Family": Breadwinning, Gender, and the Family Values Debate (1998) (1)
After the Fall of the Gender Barriers Gøsta Esping-Andersen, The Incomplete Revolution: Adapting to Women’s New Roles (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2009).--- Either ISSN or Journal title must be supplied. (2010) (1)
Work and American Families: Diverse Needs, Common Solutions (2008) (1)
Changing Family Patterns and the Future of Family Life (2015) (1)
The Myth of Balance (2004) (0)
Book Review of "Peer Marriage: How Love Between Equals Really Works, by Pepper Schwartz" (1995) (0)
Getting Started (2020) (0)
Beyond the lines: gender, work, and care in the new economy - a view from the U.S. (2022) (0)
Families and Family Life (2021) (0)
After the Fall of Gender Barriers (2011) (0)
Career beginnings. (1994) (0)
Book Review of "The Challenge of Change: Perspectives on Family, Work, andEducation, by Matina Horner, Carol C. Nadelson, and Malkah T. Notman" (1986) (0)
Constructing an Interview Guide (2020) (0)
Book Review of "Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home, by Pamela Stone" (2009) (0)
Career Beginnings: Book Review of "Gender and the Academic Experience, edited by Kathryn P. Meadow Orlans and Ruth A. Wallace" (1994) (0)
Families and Change: Where We Stand and What We Need to Know: Review of "New Families, No Families? The Transformation of the American Home, by Frances K. Goldscheider and Linda J. Waite" (1992) (0)
Love in America: Gender and Self-Development.Francesca M. Cancian (1989) (0)
Book Review of "Gender Vertigo: American Families in Transition, by Barbara J. Risman" (1999) (0)
Pulling It All Together (2020) (0)
About Opting Out (2009) (0)
Working Less and Enjoying It More: Book Review of "Putting Work in Its Place: A Quiet Revolution, by Peter Meiksins and Peter Whalley" (2003) (0)
Beyond the Headlines: What We Really Need to Know About Women and Marriage (2007) (0)
Depth Interviewing as Science and Art (2020) (0)
Interviews with Whom? (2020) (0)
Presentation: Gerson & Jacobs (2011) (0)

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