Kathleen Gerson

Ph.D. 1981 (Sociology), M.A. (Sociology), University of California, Berkeley;

B.A. 1969 (Sociology), (magna cum laude) Stanford University.

Gender, Family, Families and Work, Work and Occupations, Social Inequality, The Life Course and Human Development, Social and Individual Change Processes, Qualitative Research Methods (especially In-Depth Interviewing and Multi-Method Approaches), Social Policy and Social Change

Articles:

• "Why No One Can “Have It All” and Why That Matters"  Sociological Forum (2023)
• "The Contradictions and Challenges of Feminist Mentoring" (2023)
• "Gender, Parenting, and The Rise of Remote Work During the Pandemic: Implications for Domestic Inequality in the United States." (with Allison Dunatchik, Jennifer Glass, and Jerry Jacobs). Gender & Society (March, 2021).
  
• “There’s No Such Thing as Having It All: Gender, Work, & Care in an Age of Insecurity.” In Gender in the 21st Century: The Stalled Revolution and the Road to Equality, edited by Shannon N. Davis, Sarah Winslow, and David J. Maume. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press (2017).
  
• “Unpacking Americans’ Views on the Employment of Mothers and Fathers: Lessons from a National Vignette Survey” (with Jerry A. Jacobs). Gender and Society 30 (June 2016): 413-441.
• “Different Ways of Not Having It All: Work, Care, and Shifting Gender Arrangements in the New Economy.” In Beyond the Cubicle: Job Insecurity, Intimacy, and the Flexible Self, edited by Allison Pugh. New York: Oxford (2017).
• “The Logics of Work, Care, and Gender Change in the New Economy: A View from the U.S.” Pp. 19-35 in “Work-Family Dynamics and the Competing Logics of Regulation, Economy, and Morals, edited by Berit Brandth, Sigtona Halrynjo, and Elin Kvande. London and New York: Routledge.
• “‘Expansionist Theory’ Expanded: Integrating Sociological and Psychological Perspectives on Gender, Work, and Family Change.” Gender and Couple Relationships, edited by Susan M. McHale, Valarie King, Jennifer Van Hook, and Alan Booth. New York: Springer (2015).
• “Changing Family Patterns and the Future of Family Life” (with Stacy Torres). Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by Robert A. Scott and Stephen M. Kosslyn. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley and Sons (2015).
• “Falling Back on Plan B: The Children of the Gender Revolution Face Uncharted Territory.” Pp. 378-392 in Families as They Really Are, edited by Barbara J. Risman and Virginia E. Rutter (2nd ed., 2015). New York: W.W. Norton.
• “Changing Lives, Resistant Institutions: A New Generation Negotiates Gender, Work, and Family Change.” Sociological Forum 24 (4) (December 2009): 735-753.