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SADRI

Social and Demographic Research Institute

Sanjiv Gupta

Sanjiv Gupta
(Ph.D. University of Michigan 1999)
Sociology

W36D Machmer Hall
(413) 577-1773
sangupta@soc.umass.edu

Sanjiv Gupta is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology. His research is concentrated in the areas of family and gender, with a particular focus on time spent on housework and other activities such as leisure and socializing. Current projects include an examination of class inequalities among women with respect to their time spent on housework, exercise, sleep and leisure; a cross-national comparison of the relationship between women's earnings and their time spent on housework; and an analysis of period trends in the U.S. divorce rate. The data for these studies come from the National Survey of Families and Households (U.S.), Panel Study of Income Dynamics (U.S.), and similar large datasets from other countries.

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest: Family Demography and Sociology, Gender Stratification, Methods

Current Grants:

2010-11. CSBS. Travel Support Grant

2010-11. Provost's Office. Research Support Grant

Pending Grants:

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Parental Social Class, Childhood Time Use Patterns, and the Likelihood of High School and College Completion. NSF. Co-PI: Ayse Yetis-Bayraktar.

Selected Publications:

"Does Class Matter? Economic Inequalities and Time Spent on Housework among Married Women in Australia, Germany, Sweden, and the U.S." Chapter 6 in Men, Women, and Household Work in Cross-National Perspective, Judith Treas and Sonja Drobnic (eds.). In press, Stanford University Press.

"Earnings and the Stratification of Unpaid Time among U.S. Women." With Liana C. Sayer and Philip N. Cohen. Social Indicators Research, in press.

"Whose Money, Whose Time? A Non-parametric Approach to Modeling Housework." Feminist Economics 14:93-120, 2008. With Michael Ash.    

"Autonomy, Dependence, or Display? The Relationship between Married Women's Earnings and Housework." Journal of Marriage and the Family 69:399-417, 2007.

"Her Money, Her Time: Women's Earnings and Their Housework Hours." Social Science Research 35:975-99, 2006.

"The Consequences of Maternal Employment during Men's Childhood for Their Adult Housework Performance." Gender and Society 20:60-86, 2006.