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The Motherlode: Why Most Mothers End Up Financially Supporting Their Children

Event

Oct
21
2024

The Motherlode: Why Most Mothers End Up Financially Supporting Their Children

Oct 21, 2024 at 12:00pm - 1:00pm | McNeil 403 - PSC Commons

Series
PSC/PARC COLLOQUIUM SERIES FALL 2024
Name
Jennifer Glass
Professor, Department of Sociology Centennial Commission & Professorship in the Liberal Arts #4
The University of Texas at Austin
Speaker Biographies

Jennifer Glass is the Centennial Commission Professor of Liberal Arts in the Department of Sociology and Research Associate in the Population Research Center  at the University of Texas, Austin. She has published over 60 articles and books on work and family issues, gender stratification in the labor force, mother’s employment and mental health, gender integration in the STEM labor force, and religious conservatism and women’s economic attainment, with funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and Demography, among others. She has received the Jessie Bernard Award from the American Sociological Association, the Harriet Presser Award from the Population Association of America, the Reuben Hill Award from the National Council on Family Relations, and thrice been nominated for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research.  She has chaired the Sex and Gender Section, the Family Section, the Organizations and Work Section, and has been Vice-President of the American Sociological Association. She chaired the Social Science and Population (B) study section of the National Institutes of Health from 2017-2019. Her most recent projects explore the intensifying demands on U.S. mothers to financially support their children and their capacity to meet those demands, focusing on wages and working conditions in male and female dominated jobs. She is also researching whether and when governmental work-family policies improve or undermine parents’ and children's mental and physical health, and the role of work-family reconciliation policies in mothers’ disadvantage in the labor market.

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The Population Studies Center (PSC) at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) was founded in 1962 and stands as an international leader in research and training on the dynamic structure, organization, and health and well-being of human populations. The services that PSC provides have been funded by infrastructure grants awarded by the Population Dynamics Branch at Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) since 1978. The center and its associates are also supported by research grants and contracts awarded by federal agencies including the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation and by private foundations. Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences is the administrative home of the PSC and provides generous dedicated support to the center.

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