The Care, Work and Family Policy Network is a group of researchers affiliated with the Center for Public Policy and Administration and the Center for Research on Families at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as well as the Five Colleges in the Pioneer Valley. The group has been meeting regularly since Fall 2008 to discuss and review early versions of papers, books, and grant proposals. Joya Misra, professor of sociology and CRF affiliate, leads the research group.
Michelle Budig's research interests focus on gender, employment, labor markets, earnings, stratification, and family. Her research has appeared in the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Social Problems, Gender & Society, and numerous other professional journals. Currently she is working on
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Brenda Bushouse's research interests include early childhood policy, nonprofit governance, and policymaking processes.
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Karen M. Cardozo has served intermittently as a dean of student and academic affairs at Mount Holyoke College and taught a range of comparative cultural, ethnic, literary/film and trauma studies courses (including several focused exclusively on Asian/American Studies) on all five campuses of the consortium. In the future she hopes to introduce new cultural studies of science courses, including one
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Nancy Folbre focuses on the interface between feminist theory and political economy, with a particular interest in caring labor and other forms of non-market work. She has received a five-year fellowship from the
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Naomi Gerstel’s research focuses on work and families, with particular attention to gender gaps in paid and unpaid caregiving. She explores the effects of employment on the care adult daughters’ and sons’ give to their parents, the effects of
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Miliann Kang’s research interests include social construction of race, gender and class; sociology of the body, emotional labor and service interactions, immigrant women's work; Asian American Communities; Relations between Korean Americans and African Americans. As a Family Scholar, she considered how the decision to “opt out” or
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Laura Lovett's research interests concern gender, race and the family in twentieth century America. Her work has focused on pronatalism, reproductive regulation, eugenics, and ideals of the family, as well as the intersection of women's and children's history. She is the author of Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family, 1890-1938, and is currently co-editing an anthology on the history and legacy of
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Joya Misra's research explores how policies can both mediate and reinforce inequalities by class, gender and race/ethnicity. Her recent research explicitly links work-family policies in different countries to various outcomes, trying to understand the effects of family policies for different populations (primarily by parenthood and gender).
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Maureen Perry-Jenkins is a nationally renowned scholar whose contributions on the national, state, regional, and university levels have had profound impact. Her work focuses on the ways in which socio-cultural factors such as race,
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