SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Updated: June 15, 2012 Where provided, electronic versions are for private individual study, scholarship, or research purposes only. For a complete Curriculum Vitae, click here. GENDERED DIVISION OF LABOR/ ORGANIZATION OF RELATIONSHIPS Tsui-o Tai and Judith Treas. In press. "Housework Task Hierarchies in 32 Countries." European Sociological Review. pdf Judith Treas and Tsui-o Tai. 2012. “Apron Strings of Working Mothers: Maternal Employment and Housework in Cross-National Perspective.” Social Science Research 41: 833-842. pdf Judith Treas and Tsui-o Tai. 2012. “How Couples Manage the Household: Work and Power in Cross-National Perspective.” Journal of Family Issues 32:1-29. pdf Judith Treas, Tanja van der Lippe, and Tsui-o Tai. 2011. “The Happy Homemaker? Married Women’s Subjective Well-Being in Cross-national Perspective.” Social Forces 90:111-132. pdf Judith Treas and Tsui-o Tai. 2011. “Cross-National Evidence on Trends in Support for Working Mothers.” EurAmerica 41:917-947. pdf Judith Treas. 2011. “Revisiting the Bott Thesis on Kin Networks and Marriage.” Social Science Research 40:716-726. pdf Anne Roeters and Judith Treas. 2011. “Parental Work Demands and Parent-Child, Family, and Couple Leisure in Dutch Families: What Gives?” Journal of Family Issues 32: 269291. pdf Judith Treas. 2010. “Why Study Housework?” Pp. 3-18 in Judith Treas and Sonja Drobnič (Eds.). Dividing the Domestic: Women, Men and Housework in CrossNational Perspective. Stanford: Stanford University Press. pdf Judith Treas. 2008. “The Dilemma of Gender Specialization: Substituting and Augmenting Wives’ Household Work.” Rationality and Society 20:259-282. pdf Judith Treas and Esther de Ruijter. 2008. “Earnings and Expenditures on Household Services in Married and Cohabiting Unions.” Journal of Marriage and Family 70:796805. pdf
Judith Treas and Christin Hilgeman. 2007. “Trading Off or Having It All? Workers’ Preferences for Work and Family Time.” Pp. 93-108 in Tanja van der Lippe and Pascale Peters (Eds.) Competing Claims in Work and Family Life. Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. Esther de Ruijter, Judith Treas, and Philip N. Cohen. 2005. “Outsourcing the Gender Factory: Living Arrangements and Service Expenditures on Female and Male Tasks.” Social Forces 84:306-322. pdf Judith Treas and Eric Widmer. 2000. “Married Women’s Employment over the Life Course: Attitudes in Cross-National Perspective.” Social Forces 79:14091436. pdf Judith Treas. 1993. "Money in the Bank: Transaction Costs and the Economic Organization of Marriage." American Sociological Review 58:723-34. pdf Judith Treas. 1987. "The Effect of Female Labor Force Participation on the Distribution of Income in the United States." Annual Review of Sociology Vol. 13:259-88. pdf
AGING AND THE LIFE COURSE Judith Treas and Zoya Gubernskaya. 2012. “Farewell to Moms? Trends in Maternal Contact for Seven Countries in 1986 and 2001.” Journal of Marriage and Family 74:297-311. pdf Judith Treas and Jeanne Batalova. 2011. “Residential Independence: The Road to Adulthood in Two U.S. Immigrant Gateways.” Advances in Life Course Research 16:13-24. pdf Judith Treas. 2009. “Age in Standards and Standards for Age: Institutionalizing Chronological Age as Biographical Necessity.” In Martha Lampland and Susan Leigh Star (Eds.) Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. pdf Tsui-o Tai and Judith Treas. 2009. “Does Household Composition Explain Welfare Regime Poverty Risks for Older Adults and Other Household Members?” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 64: 777-87. Judith Treas. 2009. “Four Myths about Older Adults in America’s Immigrant Families.” Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging 32: 40-45. pdf Judith Treas. 2008. “Transnational Older Adults and their Families.” Family Relations 57: 468-478. pdf
Judith Treas and Philip Cohen. 2006. "Maternal Co-Residence and Contact: Evidence from Cross-National Surveys." Pp. 117- 137 in Anne H. Gauthier, Cyrus Chu, and Shripad Tuljapurkar (Eds.) Riding the Age Waves: Allocating Public and Private Resources Across Generations. Dordrecht: Springer/Kluwer Academic Publishers. pdf Judith Treas and Shampa Mazumdar. 2004. “Caregiving and Kinkeeping: Contributions of Older People to America’s Immigrant Families.” Journal of Comparative Family Studies 35:105-122. Judith Treas and Shampa Mazumdar. 2002. "Older People in America's Immigrant Families: Dilemmas of Dependence, Integration, and Isolation." Journal of Aging Studies 16:243-258. pdf Judith Treas and Jieming Chen. 2000. “Living Arrangements, Income Pooling, and the Life Course in Urban Chinese Families.” Research on Aging 22:238-261. pdf
SEXUAL ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR Julianne Ohlander, Judith Treas, and Jeanne Batalova. 2005. "Explaining Educational Influences on Attitudes toward Homosexual Relations." Social Science Research 34:781-99. pdf Judith Treas. 2004. "The Family and the Sexual Revolution." Pp. 397-415 in Jacqueline L. Scott, Judith Treas, and Martin P.M. Richards (Eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Families. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Judith Treas. 2002. "How Cohorts, Education and Ideology Shaped a New Sexual Revolution on American Attitudes Toward Non-Marital Sex, 1972-1998." Sociological Perspectives 45:267-283. pdf Judith Treas and Deirdre Giesen. 2000. “Sexual Infidelity among Married and Cohabiting Americans.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 62:48-60. pdf Eric Widmer, Judith Treas, and Robert Newcomb. 1998. "Attitudes Toward Non-marital Sex in 24 Countries." Journal of Sex Research 35:349-358. pdf
OCCUPATIONAL PRESTIGE & SOCIO-ECONOMIC SCALES Keiko Nakao and Judith Treas. 1994. "Updating Occupational Prestige and Socioeconomic Status Scores: How the New Measures Measure Up." Pp. 1-72 in Peter Marsden (Ed.) Sociological Methodology, 1994. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, Inc., for the American Sociological Association. pdf