Francine Deutsch

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Francine M. Deutsch (born 1948) is an American writer and professor emeritus at the Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts since 1981. [1] She is a professor of Psychology and Education. She is specialized in the social psychology of gender in everyday life, gender inequality at home and in labour market, and the educational trajectories of pre-school teachers. She worked on the link between unequal earning, young children at home and domestic inequality in household duties. [2]

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She is interested in how people's lives are structured by gender. [3] She did a lot of qualitative studies about couples who have established equality at home, or not. [3] In reference to the article by Candace West and Zimmerman, Doing Gender, [4] she did a reflection about how to undo gender in everyday life in her article Undoing Gender. [5]

She did a lot of recognized works about equal parenting. [6] In 2000, she wrote a book about that, Halving it All, How Equally Shared Parenting Works, using her interviews with families and couples egalitarian or unequal couples by trying to understand what factors affect this equality. [7]

She is a member of PRESAGE (Research and Educational Programme on Gender Studies) program at Sciences Po Paris. [8]

Deutsch received her BA from Carnegie-Mellon University and her PhD in social psychology from Columbia University.

Quotations

"It's a vicious cycle ... After childbirth, women start to reduce their time in the labor force, and his job becomes more important, which makes the home central to her." [2]

"“If you gave people a survey they would probably check all the answers about how things should be equal, ... But when they get to the part where “you ask them how things work for them day to day,” she says, “ideal does not match reality.” [9]

"Equality exists without magic. Husbands and wives become equal sharers together, fighting, negotiating, and building as they go. The big news is that despite its rarity, equal sharing is not the province of a special elite. Avoiding the pitfalls of a home life built around superwoman or former superwoman, equal sharers are ordinary people simply inventing and reinventing solutions to the dilemmas of modern family life." [3]

Best known work

Deutsch, F. M., Ruble, D. N., Fleming, A., Brooks-Gunn, J., & Stangor, C., Information-seeking and maternal self-definition during the transition to motherhood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55(3), 420–431, 1988. [10]

Deutsch, F. M., Lussier, J. B., & Servis, L. J., Husbands at home: Predictors of paternal participation in childcare and housework. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65(6), 1154–1166, 1993. [11]

Deutsch M. Francine, Halving it All, How Equally Shared Parenting Works, Harvard University Press, 1999.

Francine M. Deutsch, Undoing Gender, Gender and Society, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 106-127, Feb., 2007 [5]

Deutsch, F. M., & Yao, B. Gender differences in faculty attrition in the USA. Community, Work & Family, 17(4), 392–408, 2014. [12]

Deutsch M. Francine, Ruth A. Gaunt, Creating Equality at Home: How 25 Couples Around the World Share Housework and Childcare, will be published in May 2020.

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References

  1. ↑ "Francine Deutsch". Education and Gender Equality - International Symposium. 2017-09-05. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  2. 1 2 Goudreau, Jenna (26 Aug 2009). "Overworked, Overextended And Overstressed". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  3. 1 2 3 "Francine Deutsch". Mount Holyoke College. 2016-05-23. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  4. ↑ West, Candace; Zimmerman, Don H. (1987). "Doing Gender". Gender and Society. 1 (2): 125–151. doi:10.1177/0891243287001002002. ISSN   0891-2432. JSTOR   189945. S2CID   220519301.
  5. 1 2 Deutsch, Francine M. (2007). "Undoing Gender". Gender & Society . 21 (1): 106–127. doi:10.1177/0891243206293577. ISSN   0891-2432. JSTOR   27640948. S2CID   220442752.
  6. ↑ Belkin, Lisa (2008-06-15). "When Mom and Dad Share It All". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  7. ↑ "Halving It All — Francine M. Deutsch". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  8. ↑ "Home | Sciences Po". www.sciencespo.fr. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  9. ↑ Belkin, Lisa (2008-06-15). "When Mom and Dad Share It All". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  10. ↑ Deutsch, Francine M.; Ruble, Diane N.; Fleming, Alison; Brooks-Gunn, J.; Stangor, Charles (1988). "Information-seeking and maternal self-definition during the transition to motherhood". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 55 (3): 420–431. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.55.3.420. ISSN   1939-1315. PMID   3171914.
  11. ↑ Deutsch, Francine M.; Lussier, Julianne B.; Servis, Laura J. (1993). "Husbands at home: Predictors of paternal participation in childcare and housework". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 65 (6): 1154–1166. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.65.6.1154. ISSN   0022-3514.
  12. ↑ Deutsch, Francine M.; Yao, Beier (2014-10-02). "Gender differences in faculty attrition in the USA". Community, Work & Family. 17 (4): 392–408. doi:10.1080/13668803.2014.885880. ISSN   1366-8803. S2CID   143498410.
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