About

Constance Shehan, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at the University of Florida.  She studies women’s work (inside and outside the home/family), including the gendered division of family/household labor; the use of “labor saving” (ha) technology in the home — particularly laundry machines and products; the ways in which jobs are structured around assumptions about male and female bodies; and women’s work and well-being.  She has taught at least two dozen different courses at the University of Florida, on the undergraduate level and graduate level, focusing on families, gender, work, feminist theories, and research methods.

She is the Editor of a scholarly journal titled The Journal of Family Issues (published by Sage).  She also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Family Studies (published in 2016).  She has published numerous research papers and other books. If you are interested in her vita (i.e., academic resume), click here.