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Research Areas
Alternative Work Schedules; After-School Stress; Work-Family; Gender; Job Stress-Illness Relationship; Dual-Earner Couples
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University
M.A., Harvard University
B.A., Queens College
Links
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Ann Richards Invitational Roundtable
Rosalind Chait Barnett
Rosalind Chait Barnett
Rosalind Chait Barnett is a Senior Scientist at the Women’s Studies Research Center. Alone and with others, she has published over 115 articles, 36 chapters and eight books. Her most recent book (with Caryl Rivers), entitled The Truth about Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes about Our Children was published by Columbia University Press in 2011. She and Caryl Rivers are working on a new book entitled, The New Soft War on Women... 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, Working Woman, and the Daily Beas). 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, and the Harvard University Graduate School’s Ann Rowe award for outstanding contribution to women’s education.
Current Projects
Roz is hosting a series of 10 annual Ann Richards Roundtables on Gender and the Media. The fourth roundtable will be held in November, 2011. She is also writing a series of articles on gender and young children
Representative Publications
Barnett, Rosalind and Caryl Rivers. Same Difference: How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs. New York: Basic Books, 2004.
Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett. The Truth about Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes about Our Children. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.