Peer-Reviewed Publications on the Division of Labor in Diverse Families

Sweeney, K. R. Goldberg, A. E., & Garcia, R. L. (2017). Not a “mom thing”: Predictors of gatekeeping in same-sex and heterosexual parent families. Journal of Family Psychology. doi: 10.1037/fam0000261

Goldberg, A. E. (2013). “Doing” and “undoing” gender: The meaning and division of housework in same-sex couples. Journal of Family Theory and Review, 5, 85-104.

Goldberg, A. E., & Smith, J. Z. (2013). Work conditions and mental health in lesbian and gay dual-earner parents. Family Relations, 62, 727-740.

Richardson, H. B., Moyer, A. M., & Goldberg, A. E. (2013). “You try to be Superman and you don’t have to be”: Gay adoptive fathers’ challenges and tensions in balancing work and family. Fathering, 10, 314-336.

Goldberg, A. E., Smith, J. Z., & Perry-Jenkins, M. (2012).  The division of labor in lesbian, gay, and heterosexual new adoptive parents. Journal of Marriage and Family, 74, 812-828.

Perry-Jenkins, M., Smith, J. Z., Goldberg, A. E., & Logan, J. (2011). Working-class jobs and new parents’ mental health. Journal of Marriage and Family, 73, 1117-1132.

Downing, J. B., & Goldberg, A. E. (2010). Lesbian mothers’ constructions of the division of paid and unpaid labor. Feminism & Psychology. doi: 10.1177/0959353510375869.

Goldberg, A. E., & Perry-Jenkins, M. (2007). The division of labor and perceptions of parental roles: Lesbian couples across the transition to parenthood. Journal of Social & Personal Relationships, 24, 297-318.

Perry-Jenkins, M., Goldberg, A. E., Pierce, C., & Sayer, A. G. (2007). Shift work, role overload, and the transition to parenthood. Journal of Marriage and Family, 69, 123-138.

Goldberg, A. E. & Perry-Jenkins, M. (2004). The division of labor and working-class women’s well-being across the transition to parenthood. Journal of Family Psychology, 18(1), 225-236.

Perry-Jenkins, M., Pierce, C., & Goldberg, A. E. (2003). Discourses on diapers and dirty laundry: Family communication about child care and housework. In A. Vangelisti (Ed.), The handbook of family communication (pp. 541-562). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.