Bianchi, Goldscheider featrured at Penn State Pop Insti Conference

Gender and the Reallocation of Time Later in Life

Penn State’s De Jong Lecture in Social Demography

Suzanne M. Bianchi
Professor of Sociology and Dorothy Meier Chair in Social Equity, UCLA, will present “Gender and the Reallocation of Time Later in Life.”

Given the dominant trend in Western societies toward increased female labor force participation, there has understandably been a great deal of exploration of women’s time allocation and gender equality in market and nonmarket work during the childrearing years. Much less well conceptualized or studied empirically is what happens to women’s (and men’s) time and to the gender division of labor later in life, as children exit the parental home and women (and men) approach retirement. The presentation will discuss illustrative findings from a number of datasets that provide insights into women’s (and men’s) time allocation at a point in the life course when women’s and men’s work and family demands may again be more similar than during the childrearing years.

Discussants will be Frances Goldscheider, College Park Professor of Family Science at the University of Maryland, and Valarie King, Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Human Development & Family Studies at Penn State.

The conference is free.

For details and registration, visit :

http://www.pop.psu.edu/events/dejonglecture/

The De Jong Lecture is supported by the Gordon F. and Caroline M. De Jong Lectureship in Social Demography Endowment and supplemented by the Department of Sociology and the Population Research Institute at Penn State.

Suzanne M. Bianchi is Professor of Sociology and Dorothy Meier Chair in Social Equity. Bianchi’s research focuses on the American family, time use and gender equality. Her work chronicles changing parental investments in childrearing, unpaid work in the home and market work over the 1965-2000 period. Bianchi has also written extensively on family change, including changing family living arrangements, intergenerational caregiving and gender differences in cross-household, cross-generation exchanges of time and money.

Valarie King studies intergenerational relationships across the life course. She is principal investigator of a six-year project supported by NICHD examining the role of nonresident fathers in the lives of their children, and the consequences of this involvement for child well-being.

Frances Goldscheider’s studies on living arrangements include analyses of trends in living alone among the elderly, leaving and returning home among young adults, entry into unions (marital and cohabiting), men’s, women’s, and children’s roles in the household division of labor, and new forms of fatherhood, including single, absent and household (step). She is Professor of Sociology, emerita, at Brown University.