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Rosalind Chait Barnett is a senior scientist at the Women's Studies Research Center and executive director of its Community, Families & Work Program (CFWP). Alone and with others, she has published more than 115 articles, 36 chapters and seven books. Her most recent book (with Caryl Rivers), "Same Difference: How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs," was published by Basic Books in 2004; the paperback edition was published in 2005. 

Rosalind and Caryl Rivers are writing a new book whose working title is "The Truth about Boys and Girls."

Rosalind's articles have appeared in numerous academic journals and in general publications including the New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Washington Post, Newsday, the Boston Globe, McCall's, Self and Working Woman. 

Rosalind is the recipient of several national awards, including the American Personnel and Guidance Association's Annual Award for Outstanding Research, the Radcliffe College Graduate Society's Distinguished Achievement Medal and Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government's 1999 Goldsmith Research Award.