Mary Ann Mason
Biographic Data
| ID | 3979251 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Ann Mason |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Mason |
| SIGNATURE | MASON M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 254 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Do Babies Matter?: Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower
The new generation of scholars differs in many ways from its predecessor of just a few decades ago. Academia once consisted largely of men in traditional single-earner families. Today, men and women fill the doctoral student ranks in nearly equal numbers and most will experience both the benefits and challenges of living in dual-income households. This generation also has new expectations and values, notably the desire for flexibility and balance…
Reading in English Classrooms: A Developing Culture of Disenchantment
Based on a three-year project conducted in Australian secondary schools, this paper captures a developing disenchantment with reading in and for subject English. As part of an extended professional learning experience for teachers, students and their English teachers were interviewed and students were asked to draw reading. Paying attention to the sensitivities both students and teachers express about classroom reading experiences and to the impa…
Keeping Women in the Science Pipeline
Premier science largely depends on the quality of the pool of future scientists. Women now represent a large part of the talent pool in the United States, but many data sources indicate that they are more likely than men to "leak" out of the science pipeline before obtaining tenure at a college or university. The authors' research examines this issue in detail, drawing on multiple sources, including the Survey of Doctorate Recipients and several …
Alone in the Ivory Tower
The authors use data from the 2000 Census Public Use Microdata Sample to examine the likelihood of a birth event, defined as the household presence of a child younger than 2 years, for male and female professionals. Physicians have the highest rate of birth events, followed in order by attorneys and academics. Within each profession men have more birth events than women. For men, occupational variation in birth events can be explained by marital …
Problems in the Pipeline: Gender, Marriage, and Fertility in the Ivory Tower
Additional informationNotes on contributorsNicholas H. WolfingerNicholas H. Wolfinger is Wolfinger is Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Utah. Mary Ann Mason is Professor of Social Welfare and Law, University of California, Berkeley. Marc Goulden is Director of Data Initiatives, Academic Affairs, University of California, Berkeley.Mary Ann MasonNicholas …
Stepparents on Stepparenting: An Exploratory Study of Stepparenting Approaches
Stepparents vary widely in the extent to which they are involved in parenting their stepchildren. This paper reports results from a qualitative study of stepparenting approaches. In-depth interviews were conducted with 21 stepparents and their spouses. These stepparents described four distinct approaches related to handling discipline, spending time with their children, and defining themselves as a parent figure. Each approach was constructed in …
Marriage and Baby Blues: Redefining Gender Equity in the Academy
Traditionally, gender equity in the academy is evaluated in terms of women’s professional success as compared to men’s. This study examines gender equity not only in terms of professional outcomes but also in terms of familial outcomes, such as childbirth, marriage, and divorce. Using data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients as well as data from a 2002 to 2003 survey of the work and family issues facing ladder-rank faculty in the nine campuse…
Do Babies Matter? The Effect of Family Formation on the Lifelong Careers of Academic Men and Woman
When I first became the Dean of the Graduate Division at Berkeley last year, I had an extraordinary experience. Fifty-one percent of the 2,500 new graduate students whom I welcomed were women. Thirty-five years ago that number would have been closer to 10%. The students I welcomed included not only doctoral students, but also graduate students seeking professional degrees in law, public health, social welfare, optometry, etc. On the Berkeley camp…
The Custody Wars: Why Children are Losing the Legal Battle and What we Can Do About It
Stepparents: De Facto Parents or Legal Strangers
In most states, stepparents have little or no legal decision-making authority. Stepchildren do not receive the legal recognition as dependents that triggers a safety net in the event of death or divorce, nor do former stepparents have the legal right to visitation or custody. However, the lack of legal recognition of the stepparent role may not reflect the reality of contemporary stepfamilies. This article examines stepfamily functioning with the…
All Our Families: New Policies for a New Century
Family Law in the New Millennium: For Whose Families
In this article, the authors review changes in family law over the past 30 years in the following areas: marriage, divorce, child custody, remarriage and stepfamilies, unwed fathers, third-party visitation, nontraditional partnerships, assisted reproduction, and adoption. The authors also discuss the role that the social sciences have had in the family law revolution. Finally, the authors speculate about future changes in family law and the role …
The Custody Wars
Family Court Review is the leading interdisciplinary academic and research journal for family law professionals. The journal provides comprehensive coverage of family court practice, theory, research, and legal opinion.
Fathers under Fire: The Revolution in Child Support Enforcement
The New Stepfamily Requires a New Public Policy
About one‐fourth of all children born in the 1980s will live with a stepparent before they reach legal adulthood. Despite the prevalence of stepfamilies and their importance in nurturing children and protecting them from poverty, they have been largely ignored in state and federal policy. In this article we first analyze demographic data, focusing on the supportive yet fragile stepparent‐stepchild relationship. Second, we review existing state an…
The child sex abuse syndrome: The other major issue in State of New Jersey v. Margaret Kelly Michaels
The child sex abuse syndrome: The other major issue in State of New Jersey v. Margaret Kelly Michaels
From Father's Property to Children's Rights: The History of Child Custody in the United States
Journal Article From Father's Property to Children's Rights: The History of Child Custody in the United States. By Mary Ann Mason. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. xviii, 237 pp. $29.50, ISBN 0-231-08046-8.) Get access Michael Grossberg Michael Grossberg Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pa…
From Father's Property to Children's Rights: The History of Custody in the United States
Towards a Structure of Indifference: The Social Origins of Maternal Custody.Debra Friedman
Masters and servants: The American colonial model of child custody and control
Dividing the child: Social and legal dilemmas of custody
Standing Still in the Workplace: Women in Social Work and Other Female-Dominated Occupations
This article critically examines the condition of women in the workplace from the premise that the equal rights orientation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has done little to promote the welfare of women workers in female-dominated occupations, including social work, most of whom are mothers. This article investigates alternative strategies such as comparable worth and labor union bargaining. It also discusses raising wages and chang…
Patterns of adolescent psychiatric hospitalization: Implications for social policy
Demographic and institutional patterns of psychiatric inpatient treatment of adolescents in California in 1987 were analyzed with a focus on the roles of funding sources, ethnicity, and age in access to care, type of institutionalization, and length of stay. Privately insured white youths were found to be overrepresented in private psychiatric hospitals, while minority youths were underrepresented in private hospitals and overrepresented in juven…
Equal Rights Fails American Mothers: The Limitations of an Equal Rights Strategy in Family Law and the Workplace
Family law reforms in the United States over the past few decades have been impelled by an ideology of achieving equality between men and women. Despite these reforms the inequalities between American women and men, especially after breakdown of marriage, remain substantial. This article explains how these changes have worked against the interests of women. It argues that equal rights strategies overlook the significance of motherhood. In the wor…
Marriage and Baby Blues: Redefining Gender Equity in the Academy
Traditionally, gender equity in the academy is evaluated in terms of women’s professional success as compared to men’s. This study examines gender equity not only in terms of professional outcomes but also in terms of familial outcomes, such as childbirth, marriage, and divorce. Using data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients as well as data from a 2002 to 2003 survey of the work and family issues facing ladder-rank faculty in the nine campuse…
Problems in the Pipeline: Gender, Marriage, and Fertility in the Ivory Tower
Additional informationNotes on contributorsNicholas H. WolfingerNicholas H. Wolfinger is Wolfinger is Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Utah. Mary Ann Mason is Professor of Social Welfare and Law, University of California, Berkeley. Marc Goulden is Director of Data Initiatives, Academic Affairs, University of California, Berkeley.Mary Ann MasonNicholas …
Keeping Women in the Science Pipeline
Premier science largely depends on the quality of the pool of future scientists. Women now represent a large part of the talent pool in the United States, but many data sources indicate that they are more likely than men to "leak" out of the science pipeline before obtaining tenure at a college or university. The authors' research examines this issue in detail, drawing on multiple sources, including the Survey of Doctorate Recipients and several …
Stepparents: De Facto Parents or Legal Strangers
In most states, stepparents have little or no legal decision-making authority. Stepchildren do not receive the legal recognition as dependents that triggers a safety net in the event of death or divorce, nor do former stepparents have the legal right to visitation or custody. However, the lack of legal recognition of the stepparent role may not reflect the reality of contemporary stepfamilies. This article examines stepfamily functioning with the…
The New Stepfamily Requires a New Public Policy
About one‐fourth of all children born in the 1980s will live with a stepparent before they reach legal adulthood. Despite the prevalence of stepfamilies and their importance in nurturing children and protecting them from poverty, they have been largely ignored in state and federal policy. In this article we first analyze demographic data, focusing on the supportive yet fragile stepparent‐stepchild relationship. Second, we review existing state an…
Family Law in the New Millennium: For Whose Families
In this article, the authors review changes in family law over the past 30 years in the following areas: marriage, divorce, child custody, remarriage and stepfamilies, unwed fathers, third-party visitation, nontraditional partnerships, assisted reproduction, and adoption. The authors also discuss the role that the social sciences have had in the family law revolution. Finally, the authors speculate about future changes in family law and the role …
Alone in the Ivory Tower
The authors use data from the 2000 Census Public Use Microdata Sample to examine the likelihood of a birth event, defined as the household presence of a child younger than 2 years, for male and female professionals. Physicians have the highest rate of birth events, followed in order by attorneys and academics. Within each profession men have more birth events than women. For men, occupational variation in birth events can be explained by marital …
Do Babies Matter?: Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower
The new generation of scholars differs in many ways from its predecessor of just a few decades ago. Academia once consisted largely of men in traditional single-earner families. Today, men and women fill the doctoral student ranks in nearly equal numbers and most will experience both the benefits and challenges of living in dual-income households. This generation also has new expectations and values, notably the desire for flexibility and balance…
The child sex abuse syndrome: The other major issue in State of New Jersey v. Margaret Kelly Michaels
Standing Still in the Workplace: Women in Social Work and Other Female-Dominated Occupations
This article critically examines the condition of women in the workplace from the premise that the equal rights orientation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has done little to promote the welfare of women workers in female-dominated occupations, including social work, most of whom are mothers. This article investigates alternative strategies such as comparable worth and labor union bargaining. It also discusses raising wages and chang…
Equal Rights Fails American Mothers: The Limitations of an Equal Rights Strategy in Family Law and the Workplace
Family law reforms in the United States over the past few decades have been impelled by an ideology of achieving equality between men and women. Despite these reforms the inequalities between American women and men, especially after breakdown of marriage, remain substantial. This article explains how these changes have worked against the interests of women. It argues that equal rights strategies overlook the significance of motherhood. In the wor…
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The Linguistic Mechanisms of Abstract Thought: A Model and Supporting Stylistic Analysis
What children can tell us
Equal Rights Fails American Mothers: The Limitations of an Equal Rights Strategy in Family Law and the Workplace
Family law reforms in the United States over the past few decades have been impelled by an ideology of achieving equality between men and women. Despite these reforms the inequalities between American women and men, especially after breakdown of marriage, remain substantial. This article explains how these changes have worked against the interests of women. It argues that equal rights strategies overlook the significance of motherhood. In the wor…
Standing Still in the Workplace: Women in Social Work and Other Female-Dominated Occupations
This article critically examines the condition of women in the workplace from the premise that the equal rights orientation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has done little to promote the welfare of women workers in female-dominated occupations, including social work, most of whom are mothers. This article investigates alternative strategies such as comparable worth and labor union bargaining. It also discusses raising wages and chang…
Patterns of adolescent psychiatric hospitalization: Implications for social policy
Demographic and institutional patterns of psychiatric inpatient treatment of adolescents in California in 1987 were analyzed with a focus on the roles of funding sources, ethnicity, and age in access to care, type of institutionalization, and length of stay. Privately insured white youths were found to be overrepresented in private psychiatric hospitals, while minority youths were underrepresented in private hospitals and overrepresented in juven…
Dividing the child: Social and legal dilemmas of custody
Masters and servants: The American colonial model of child custody and control
The child sex abuse syndrome: The other major issue in State of New Jersey v. Margaret Kelly Michaels
The child sex abuse syndrome: The other major issue in State of New Jersey v. Margaret Kelly Michaels
From Father's Property to Children's Rights: The History of Child Custody in the United States
Journal Article From Father's Property to Children's Rights: The History of Child Custody in the United States. By Mary Ann Mason. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. xviii, 237 pp. $29.50, ISBN 0-231-08046-8.) Get access Michael Grossberg Michael Grossberg Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pa…
From Father's Property to Children's Rights: The History of Custody in the United States
Towards a Structure of Indifference: The Social Origins of Maternal Custody.Debra Friedman
The New Stepfamily Requires a New Public Policy
About one‐fourth of all children born in the 1980s will live with a stepparent before they reach legal adulthood. Despite the prevalence of stepfamilies and their importance in nurturing children and protecting them from poverty, they have been largely ignored in state and federal policy. In this article we first analyze demographic data, focusing on the supportive yet fragile stepparent‐stepchild relationship. Second, we review existing state an…
Fathers under Fire: The Revolution in Child Support Enforcement
The Custody Wars
Family Court Review is the leading interdisciplinary academic and research journal for family law professionals. The journal provides comprehensive coverage of family court practice, theory, research, and legal opinion.
All Our Families: New Policies for a New Century
Family Law in the New Millennium: For Whose Families
In this article, the authors review changes in family law over the past 30 years in the following areas: marriage, divorce, child custody, remarriage and stepfamilies, unwed fathers, third-party visitation, nontraditional partnerships, assisted reproduction, and adoption. The authors also discuss the role that the social sciences have had in the family law revolution. Finally, the authors speculate about future changes in family law and the role …
Do Babies Matter? The Effect of Family Formation on the Lifelong Careers of Academic Men and Woman
When I first became the Dean of the Graduate Division at Berkeley last year, I had an extraordinary experience. Fifty-one percent of the 2,500 new graduate students whom I welcomed were women. Thirty-five years ago that number would have been closer to 10%. The students I welcomed included not only doctoral students, but also graduate students seeking professional degrees in law, public health, social welfare, optometry, etc. On the Berkeley camp…
The Custody Wars: Why Children are Losing the Legal Battle and What we Can Do About It
Stepparents: De Facto Parents or Legal Strangers
In most states, stepparents have little or no legal decision-making authority. Stepchildren do not receive the legal recognition as dependents that triggers a safety net in the event of death or divorce, nor do former stepparents have the legal right to visitation or custody. However, the lack of legal recognition of the stepparent role may not reflect the reality of contemporary stepfamilies. This article examines stepfamily functioning with the…
Stepparents on Stepparenting: An Exploratory Study of Stepparenting Approaches
Stepparents vary widely in the extent to which they are involved in parenting their stepchildren. This paper reports results from a qualitative study of stepparenting approaches. In-depth interviews were conducted with 21 stepparents and their spouses. These stepparents described four distinct approaches related to handling discipline, spending time with their children, and defining themselves as a parent figure. Each approach was constructed in …
Marriage and Baby Blues: Redefining Gender Equity in the Academy
Traditionally, gender equity in the academy is evaluated in terms of women’s professional success as compared to men’s. This study examines gender equity not only in terms of professional outcomes but also in terms of familial outcomes, such as childbirth, marriage, and divorce. Using data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients as well as data from a 2002 to 2003 survey of the work and family issues facing ladder-rank faculty in the nine campuse…
Problems in the Pipeline: Gender, Marriage, and Fertility in the Ivory Tower
Additional informationNotes on contributorsNicholas H. WolfingerNicholas H. Wolfinger is Wolfinger is Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Utah. Mary Ann Mason is Professor of Social Welfare and Law, University of California, Berkeley. Marc Goulden is Director of Data Initiatives, Academic Affairs, University of California, Berkeley.Mary Ann MasonNicholas …
Alone in the Ivory Tower
The authors use data from the 2000 Census Public Use Microdata Sample to examine the likelihood of a birth event, defined as the household presence of a child younger than 2 years, for male and female professionals. Physicians have the highest rate of birth events, followed in order by attorneys and academics. Within each profession men have more birth events than women. For men, occupational variation in birth events can be explained by marital …
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