Awarded by the American Sociological Association.

SAGE and Pine Forge Teaching Innovations & Professional Development Award, Section on Teaching and Learning

Awarded by the Department of Sociology, Cornell University.

Robert McGinnis Best Paper Award for “Economic Dependence, Gender, and Infidelity"

Activism Award, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center

Flexible Work, Flexible Penalties: The Effect of Gender, Childcare, and Type of Request on the Flexibility Bias

Her Support, His Support: Money, Masculinity, and Marital Infidelity

The Role of Gender Identity Threat in Perceptions of Date Rape and Sexual Coercion

Ambivalence Toward Adult Children: Differences Between Mothers and Fathers

The Science of Two-Timing: The State of Infidelity Research

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Christin Munsch earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Cornell University in 2012 and then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research. She specializes in family, work and occupations, gender, social psychology, and quantitative methods. The overarching goal of her research is to identify the ways in which contemporary, dual earner families organize interaction based on a traditional, breadwinner-homemaker model and the consequences of this mismatch for individuals, relationships, and the reproduction of inequality. This goal has generated two strains of research. First, her dissertation work considers the meaning and significance of breadwinning and investigates the effects of economic dependency in married and cohabiting heterosexual partnerships. In a second line of inquiry, she examines the “flexibility bias” and the ways in which penalties for flexible work vary by family structure.

Family Breadwinners

Gender Roles

Why Some Employees Have More Flexible Work Options Than Others

Millennial men are more accepting than ever, but they still won't do laundry

Being the breadwinner may be bad for younger men's well-being

The Health Benefits of Decoupling Money and Masculinity

The fascinating connection between how much married people make and how likely they are to cheat

Assistant Professor of Sociology

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