Areas of Expertise
Alternative Work Schedules; After-School Stress; Work-Family; Gender; Job Stress-Illness Relationship; Dual-Earner Couples
Email: rbarnett@brandeis.edu
Current Project
Roz is the Principal Investigator on five grants. One grant is to examine the role communities play in the lives of families with school-aged children. The second develops a measure to assess CARE (i.e., the concerns employees have about adult relatives and elders) and then assesses the relationship between CARE and employees’ well-being and job productivity. She is also Principal Investigator on three other grants.
Biography
Rosalind C. 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 over 115 articles, 36 chapters and seven books. Her most recent book (with Caryl Rivers), entitled The Same Difference: How Gender Myths are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs was published by Basic Books in 2004 and the paperback edition was published in 2005. She and Caryl Rivers are writing a new book whose working title is The Truth about Boys and Girls. Her articles have appeared in numerous academic journals and in general publications (The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Washington Post, Newsday, The Boston Globe, McCall’s, Self, and Working Woman). Roz 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.
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University
M.A., Harvard University
B.A., Queens College
Representative Publications
Barnett, R. and C. Rivers. Same Difference: How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs. New York: Basic Books, 2004.
Barnett, R. C. and J. S. Hyde. “Women, Men, Work, and Family: An Expansionist Theory.” American Psychologist 56 (2001): 781-96.
Links
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Web Page
Ann Richards Invitational Roundtable
Harvard's Dataverse Network
Boston College Center for Work and Families
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