Jennifer Glass
Professor
2008
PAM

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Current Activities

Current Professional Activities
She currently sits on the Executive Office and Budget Committee of the American Sociological Association, after chairing the Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section (2007-08), the Family Section (2205-06) and the Sex and Gender Section (2002-03) and serving on the Executive Council of the ASA. 

Current Research Activities

Her own research concerns processes of gender stratification, work and family issues, the employment behavior of women with children, and employment and family effects on mental health. She has published over 40 books, articles, and monographs on work-family dynamics in American families.  Her research on work-family issues has thrice been nominated for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award, and she received the Reuben Hill Award for Excellence in Theory and Research from the National Council on Family Relations. She is currently researching the effects of workplace policies and benefits on wage growth among mothers, fathers, and non-parents to try and understand the origins of the “motherhood wage gap” that continues to economically disadvantage mothers and their children.  Related work focuses on the effects of different forms of child care (including care by fathers) on mother's child care satisfaction, job satisfaction, and mental health. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and National Institute for Child Health and Human Development for this work. Future work will explore the effects of work-family reconciliation policies on fertility among American women.

A second major project concerns the effects of religious fundamentalism on the transition to adulthood among young women and men, and their subsequent status attainment in adulthood, supported by the National Science Foundation.  With colleagues Jerry Jacobs, Leda Nath, and Nicole Wolensky, she published a series of articles beginning in 2005 looking at the life course trajectories and employment decisions of conservative Protestant women and men in Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Gender and Society. Future work will explore the impact of religious conservatism on the higher divorce rates of so-called “red states.” 



Biography

Biographical Statement
Jennifer Glass received her Master of Science and Ph.D.  in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is currently a full Professor in the Policy Analysis and Management Department with a courtesy appointment in Sociology at Cornell University, after holding tenured positions at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Iowa, where she co-directed the Institute for Inequality Studies and served five years as chair of the Sociology Department.  In her current role as researcher and teacher, her goal is to create research that cross disciplinary boundaries to focus on the creation and maintenance of gender, race, and class disparities in economic well-being, psychological well-being and physical health.

Education
Ph.D.   1983     Sociology          University of Wisconsin, Madison
M.S.    1979     Sociology          University of Wisconsin, Madison
B.A.     1977    Sociology          New College of Florida

Administrative Responsibilities
Dr. Glass currently sits on the Executive Committee of the Center for the Study of Inequality.

Courses, Websites, Pubs

Selected Publications

Recent Book Chapters
Glass, Jennifer.  Forthcoming. "Work-Life Policies: Future Directions for Research that Makes a Difference ." In Alan Booth and Nan Crouter (Eds.), Work Life Policies that Make a Difference. 

Glass, Jennifer. Forthcoming. "Economic Transformation, Work-Family Issues, and Marriage" In Thomas DiPrete, Lynne Casper, Seth Sanders, Pamela Smock, and Peter Brandon (Eds.) , Romantic Unions and Union Formation.  

Glass, Jennifer. 2004.  "Imagining Family Roles: Parental Influences on the Expectations of Adolescents in Dual-Career Families: Commentary." in Barbara Schneider and Linda Waite (Eds.), Being Together, Working Apart, Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Univ. Press.

Recent Publications
Fitzgerald, Scott and Jennifer Glass. 2008  "Can Early Family Formation Explain the Lower Educational Attainment of U.S. Conservative Protestants?," Sociological Spectrum, forthcoming.

Civettini, Nicole W. and Jennifer Glass. 2008. "The Impact of Religious Conservatism on Mens Work and Family Involvement," Gender and Society 22: 172-193. [abstract]

Noonan, Mary, Sarah Beth Estes, and Jennifer Glass. 2007. "Do Flexible Work Practices Influence Time Spent in Domestic Labor?" Journal of Family Issues 28: 263-288.

Glass, Jennifer and Leda Kanellakos. 2006. "Conservative Religion, Marriage, and the Transition to Parenthood ? Effects on Womens Labor Force Participation and Earnings" Journal of Marriage and Family 68: 611-629.