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Full CV

Biosketch

Education

1977  A.B., Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

1983  Ph.D., Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Research

• Working Time and Work-Family Conflict
• Work and Technological Change among Stock-brokers
• Gender and Medical Care
• Gender and Medical Education
• Gender and Higher Education
• Welfare Reform

Recent Articles and Essays

• The Faculty Time Divide
• Multiple Methods - ASR
• Comparative and International - ASR
• ASR's Greatest Hits
• Further Reflections on ASR's Greatest Hits
• Catskills Memoirs

Selected Publications

2007 Boulis, Ann K. and Jerry A. Jacobs
Women Becoming Doctors: Women's Entry in the Medical Profession in the United States, 1970-2000. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press (forthcoming.)

2006 Shaw, Katherine, Sara Goldrick-Rab, Chris Mazzeo and Jerry A. Jacobs
Putting Poor People to Work: How the work-First Ideology Transformed wElfare and Job Training. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

2004 Jacobs, Jerry A. and Kathleen Gerson. The Time Divide: Work, Family and Gender Inequality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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