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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
Boston College Center for Work and Families
The Truth About Girls and Boys
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
I will be working on a new book with my long-term writing colleague, Caryl Rivers. The working title of the book is, The New Soft War on Women. In the book, we describe hidden obstacles that women confront at work and beyond; obstacles that prevent them from realizing the legitimate gains from their education and hard work.
Representative Publications
Barnett, R. C., Brennan, R. T., Gareis, K. C., Ertel, K. A., Berkman, L. F., & Almeida, D. M. (2012) “Expanding Conservation of Resources theory: Work-family conflict as a mediator.” Community, Work, and Family. 15(2), 131
Rivers, Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett. The Truth about Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes about Our Children. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.