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A professor in the Department of Sociology and a UMass Distinguished Professor, Naomi Gerstel has published articles on the gender gap in kinwork, factors shaping men’s caregiving, the work of maintaining sibling ties, the class, race and gender privileges embedded in FMLA and child care, and labor unions’ family policies. Her ongoing research consists of two projects: 1) research on carework, focusing on variation by race/ethnicity in the gender gap, and 2) a study of the politics of time, focusing on paid work and families. She, along with Dan Clawson, has been selected to be a resident fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation for their project "Inequality in Work Hours and Schedules" during 2011-12.

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest: Family, Gender, Families and Work, Gender/Race Gap in Caregiving and Care Work, Culture and Politics of Time

Current Grants:

2011-12. Russell Sage Foundation. Visiting Scholar.

2010-11. NSF. Contesting Time: Negotiations about Work Hours, by Gender and Class. PI: Dan Clawson.

Recent Grants:

2009. Sloan Foundation. Unofficial Flexibility: An Analysis of Actual Day-to-Day Schedules. PI: Dan Clawson

2006-08. NSF. Job Hours and Schedules: Explaining the Social Processes in Four Health Care Occupations. Co-PI: Dan Clawson

Pending Grants:

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Manhood: Race, Class, and the Salience of Fatherhood. NSF. Co-PI: Emmanuel Adero.

Selected Publications:

"Rethinking Families and Community: The Color, Class,and Centrality of Extended Kin Ties." Sociologial Forum 26:1-20,2011.

"Till Marriage Do Us Part: Adult Children’s Relationships with Parents.” Journal of Marriage and Family 70:360-76, 2008. With Natalia Sarkisian.

"The Color of Family Ties: Race, Class, Gender, and Extended Family Involvement.” In American Families: A Multicultural Reader, 2nd Ed., Stephanie Coontz, Maya Parson, and Gabrielle Rayley (eds.) pp. 447-53, New York: Routledge, 2008.

“Intergenerational Care and the Greediness of Adult Children’s Marriages.” In Interpersonal Relations across the Life Course, Timothy J. Owens and J. Jill Suitor (eds.), pp. 153-88, Advances in Life Course Research, Vol. 12, Greenwich, CT: Elsevier/JAI Press, 2007.

"Marriage: The Good, The Bad, and The Greedy." Contexts 5:16-21, 2006. With Natalia Sarkisian.

"Family Leaves, the FMLA, and Gender Neutrality: The Intersection of Race and Gender." Social Science Research 35:871-91, 2006. With Amy Armenia.

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