Philip N. Cohen

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Philip N. Cohen
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Born 1967 (age 56–57)
Nationality American
Fields Sociology and demography
Institutions University of California, Irvine (1999-2005), University of North Carolina (2005-2011), University of Maryland (2011-)
Alma mater University of Michigan (BA); University of Massachusetts (MA in Sociology); University of Maryland (PhD in Sociology)

Philip N. Cohen is an American sociologist. He is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park.[1] He is co-editor, with Syed Ali, of Contexts, the quarterly magazine of the American Sociological Association.

Career

Cohen graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in American Culture, from the University of Massachusetts with an M.A. in Sociology, and from the University of Maryland with a Ph.D. in Sociology. His previous faculty positions were at the University of North Carolina and the University of California, Irvine[2]

He is a sociologist and demographer who works in the areas of families and inequality, social demography, and social inequality. His concerns include gender and race/ethnic segregation in occupations, gender and authority, unpaid housework and care work, health disparities, and demographic measurement.[3]

He also is an Associate of the Maryland Population Research Center,[4] a member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Contemporary Families,[5] and secretary-treasurer of the American Sociological Association's Population Section.[6]

The Family

Cohen wrote The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change, published in 2014 by W. W. Norton & Company.[7]

Research

Cohen's work on labor market inequality has focused on race/ethnic and gender inequality in the United States. On race, he has published in the American Journal of Sociology[8] (with Matt Huffman) and Social Forces,[9] assessing the relationship between demographic composition of labor markets and patterns of inequality.

In the area of gender inequality, his research (with Matt Huffman) has addressed occupational segregation and gender devaluation[10] and the effects of women in workplace management positions.[11][12] Alone as well as with a number of different co-authors, he has published research on the gender division of household labor.[13][14][15][16]

On family structure, he has addressed issues of measurement, including how to identify cohabiting couples in U.S. Census data.,[17] and the language used for marriage (homogamy and heterogamy).[18]

On health disparities, he has studied disability rates among adopted children,[19] the living arrangements of children with disabilities,[20] the relationship between parental age and childhood disability,[21] and race/ethnic disparities in infant mortality.[22]

Some of Cohen's research is part of the tradition of intersectionality, including his work on the American women's suffrage movement;[23] and on the relationship between population composition and inequality by race, class and gender.[24]

Congressional Testimony

In 2007, Cohen testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, on equal pay for women workers.[25] The legislation under consideration at that hearing eventually became the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009.

Public Work

Cohen has been the author of the Family Inequality blog since 2009.[26]

His writing has appeared in the New York Times Sunday Review,[27] the Washington Post,[28] The Chronicle of Higher Education,[29] Sociological Images,[30] The Atlantic,[31] Boston Review,[32] Huffington Post,[33] Time,[34] Pacific Standard,[35] The Conversation,[36] and Salon.[37]

He has also contributed to news reports for such sources as the New York Times, Time magazine, NPR, the Washington Post, MSNBC and Vox.com.[38]

In 2011 he served as a consultant to the United States Census Bureau for its release of the first enumeration of same-sex married couples from the 2010 decennial census.[39]

References

  1. ↑ Philip N. Cohen (University of Maryland)
  2. ↑ Philip N. Cohen
  3. ↑ Google Scholar list of publications
  4. ↑ Maryland Population Research Center
  5. ↑ Council on Contemporary Families
  6. ↑ ASA Population Section
  7. ↑ The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change at Norton
  8. ↑ Huffman, Matt L. and Philip N. Cohen. 2004. "Racial Wage Inequality: Job Segregation and Devaluation Across U.S. Labor Markets." American Journal of Sociology 109(4):902-936.
  9. ↑ Cohen, Philip N. 1998. "Black Concentration Effects on Black-White and Gender Inequality: Multilevel Analysis for U.S. Metropolitan Areas." Social Forces 77(1):207-229.
  10. ↑ Cohen, Philip N. and Matt L. Huffman. 2003. "Individuals, Jobs, and Labor Markets: The Devaluation of Women's Work." American Sociological Review 68(3):443-63
  11. ↑ Cohen, Philip N. and Matt L. Huffman. 2007. "Working for the Woman? Female Managers and the Gender Wage Gap." American Sociological Review 72(5):681-704.
  12. ↑ Matt L. Huffman, Philip N. Cohen and Jessica Pearlman. 2010. "Engendering Change: Organizational Dynamics and Workplace Gender Segregation, 1975-2005." Administrative Science Quarterly 55(2):255-277.
  13. ↑ Cohen, Philip N. 2004. "The Gender Division of Labor: 'Keeping House' and Occupational Segregation in the United States." Gender and Society 18(2):239-252.
  14. ↑ Jeanne A. Batalova and P. N. Cohen. 2002. "Premarital Cohabitation and Housework: Couples in Cross-National Perspective." Journal of Marriage and Family 64(3):743-755.
  15. ↑ Fuwa, Makiko and Philip N. Cohen. 2007. "Housework and Social Policy." Social Science Research 36(2):512-530.
  16. ↑ Claudia Geist and Philip N. Cohen. 2011. "Headed Toward Equality? Housework Change in Comparative Perspective." Journal of Marriage and Family 73(August):832-844.
  17. ↑ Casper, Lynne M., and Philip N. Cohen. 2000. "How Does POSSLQ Measure Up? Historical Estimates of Cohabitation." Demography 37(2):237-45.
  18. ↑ Cohen, Philip N. 2011. "Homogamy Unmodified." Journal of Family Theory and Review 3:47-51.
  19. ↑ Kreider, Rose, and Philip N. Cohen. 2009. "Disability Among Internationally Adopted Children in the United States." Pediatrics 124:1311-1318.
  20. ↑ Cohen, Philip N. and Miruna Petrescu-Prahova. 2006. "Gendered Living Arrangements Among Children with Disabilities." Journal of Marriage and Family 68(August):630-638.
  21. ↑ Cohen, Philip N. 2014. "Parental Age and Cognitive Disability among Children in the United States." Sociological Science 1:102-110.
  22. ↑ Cohen, Philip N. 2016. "Maternal Age and Infant Mortality for White, Black, and Mexican Mothers in the United States." Sociological Science 3:32-38
  23. ↑ Cohen, Philip N. 1996. "Nationalism and Suffrage: Gender Struggle in Nation-Building America." Signs 21(3):707-727.
  24. ↑ Cohen, Philip N. 2001. "Race, Class, and Labor Markets: The White Working Class and Racial Composition of U.S. Metropolitan Areas." Social Science Research 30:146-169.
  25. ↑ Senate HELP Committee testimony
  26. ↑ Family Inequality blog
  27. ↑ Philip Cohen op-ed in the New York Times Sunday Review
  28. ↑ Philip Cohen op-ed in Washington Post
  29. ↑ Philip Cohen op-ed in The Chronicle of Higher Education
  30. ↑ Philip Cohen posts at Sociological Images
  31. ↑ Philip Cohen author profile at TheAtlantic.com
  32. ↑ Philip Cohen contributions to Boston Review
  33. ↑ Philip Cohen author profile at Huffington Post
  34. ↑ Philip Cohen author profile at Time.com
  35. ↑ Philip Cohen author profile at Pacific Standard,
  36. ↑ Philip Cohen author profile at The Conversation
  37. ↑ Philip Cohen author profile at Salon
  38. ↑ List of media references
  39. ↑ Census Bureau news release
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