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Overview

Naomi Gerstel is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on issues within the social sciences, with a concentration on sociology and political science, gender studies, education, and general health professions. The scientist's work addresses topics including work-family balance challenges, gender, labor, and family dynamics, gender diversity and inequality, higher education research studies, urban neighborhood and segregation studies, and employment and welfare studies.

Gerstel has published in various scholarly journals, with contributions appearing in the following venues:

  • Journal of Marriage and the Family
  • Sociological Perspectives
  • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
  • American Journal of Sociology

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Work and Family in the Second Decade of the 21st Century, 2020, Journal of Marriage and the Family
  • Families and Financial Support: Comparing Black and Asian American College Students, 2022, Sociological Perspectives
  • Unemployment: The Accumulation of Advantage and Disadvantage, 2022, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
  • Overload: How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do about It. By Erin L. Kelly and Phyllis Moen. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. vii+325. $29.95., 2021, American Journal of Sociology

Throughout their career, Naomi Gerstel has collaborated frequently with several co-authors. These include:

  • Karen V. Hansen
  • Margaret K. Nelson
  • Nazli Kibria
  • Maureen Perry-Jenkins
  • Yolanda Wiggins

Best Publications

  • Kin Support among Blacks and Whites: Race and Family Organization:

    Natalia Sarkisian;Naomi R. Gerstel

  • MEN'S CAREGIVING: Gender and the Contingent Character of Care

    Naomi R. Gerstel;Sally K. Gallagher

  • Till Marriage Do Us Part: Adult Children’s Relationships With Their Parents

    Natalia Sarkisian;Naomi R. Gerstel

  • Explaining the Symptomatology of Separated and Divorced Women and Men: The Role of Material Conditions and Social Networks

    Naomi Gerstel;Catherine Kohler Riessman;Sarah Rosenfield

  • Work and Family in the Second Decade of the 21st Century

    Maureen Perry-Jenkins;Naomi Gerstel

  • Fathering, Class, and Gender A Comparison of Physicians and Emergency Medical Technicians

    Carla Shows;Naomi R. Gerstel

  • Does singlehood isolate or integrate? Examining the link between marital status and ties to kin, friends, and neighbors:

    Natalia Sarkisian;Naomi Gerstel

  • Extended Family Integration among Euro and Mexican Americans: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class.

    Natalia Sarkisian;Mariana Gerena;Naomi Gerstel

  • Explaining the Gender Gap in Help to Parents: The Importance of Employment

    Natalia Sarkisian;Naomi R. Gerstel

  • Kinkeeping and Distress: Gender, Recipients of Care, and Work-Family Conflict.

    Naomi Gerstel;Sally K. Gallagher

  • Job Leaves and the Limits of the Family and Medical Leave Act The Effects of Gender, Race, and Family

    Naomi Gerstel;Katherine McGONAGLE

  • Marriage: The Good, the Bad, and the Greedy:

    Naomi R. Gerstel;Natalia Sarkisian

  • Extended Family Ties Among Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Whites: Superintegration or Disintegration?*

    Natalia Sarkisian;Mariana Gerena;Naomi R. Gerstel

  • Family ties : enduring relations between parents and their grown children

    Naomi Gerstel;John R. Logan;Glenna D. Spitze

  • Caring for Kith and Kin: Gender, Employment, and the Privatization of Care

    Naomi Gerstel;Sally Gallagher

  • Rethinking Families and Community: The Color, Class, and Centrality of Extended Kin Ties†

    Naomi R. Gerstel

  • The Third Shift: Gender and Care Work Outside the Home

    Naomi Gerstel

  • Commuter Marriage: A Study of Work and Family

    Naomi Gerstel;Harriet Gross

  • A Labor of Love or Labor Itself Care Work among Adult Brothers and Sisters

    Shelley Eriksen;Naomi R. Gerstel

  • Marital dissolution and health: do males or females have greater risk?

    Catherine Kohler Riessman;Naomi Gerstel

  • Unequal Time: Gender, Class, and Family in Employment Schedules

    Dan Clawson;Naomi Gerstel

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Burawoy
Michael Burawoy University of California, Berkeley

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