Congratulations 2005 Winners!
Family Section Awards announced in Philadelphia

2005 Goode Book Award
Winner: Mary Blair-Loy

Mary Blair-Loy, author of Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Executive Women, is the winner of the Family Section's 2005 Goode Book Award.

The award is given to one of the books published within the past two years (2003, 2004) in the sociology of the family. The field of nominations was judged on centrality of family to the book, conceptual development, methodological soundness, and scholarly impact. 

2005 Distinguished Scholarship or Service
Winner: Lynn White

Lynne White was the winner of the 2005 Distinguished Scholarship or Service winner. This award is designed to recognize the collective career or major service contributions of a sociologist's work in the field of sociology of the family. The distinguished career award recognizes the entire body of the person's work as it relates to the sociology of the family (not just one publication). Major service to the field is defined as those developments that have made a substantial impact on research in the family (for example, data banks, analysis techniques, scholarly writings, etc.).

Award committee: Paula England, Sara McLanahan, Laura Sanchez, Maureen Waller, and Pamela Smock (Chair).

2005 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper
Winner: Jennifer L. Hook

Jennifer L. Hook received the award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper in the Sociology of the Family for her paper “Men’s Unpaid Work in 20 Countries, 1965-1998.”

This clearly written and executed paper uses 38 surveys from 20 countries from 1968 through 1998. Hook also assembled macro-level data about each country. She sought to show how contextual factors (e.g., availability of paid parental leave for men, length of such leaves) affect men’s unpaid work behaviors. She showed that women’s labor force practices and the availability of parental leaves for men increase the time men spend on unpaid work. But the availability of lengthy parental leaves decreases men’s time in such tasks. She concludes: “The analyses document the importance of macro-level context for the unpaid work behaviors of men, and shift the research focus from the attributes of individual men to the structures that hinder and facilitate men’s unpaid work.”

Committee members: Don Hernandez, Megan Sweeney, Laura Holian, and Steven Nock (Chair).