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David J. Maume's recent work featured in March issue of McMicken Monthly.
Kunz Center awarded a grant to study gender inequality in sleep
Do you and your spouse prevent each other from getting a good nights sleep? That is what David Maume (Kunz Center Director, and Professor of Sociology), and his students, Rachel Sebastian and Anthony Bardo, will determine in a project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In 2008, Maume and his research team will interview working-class couples about their rituals and habits in getting to sleep, staying asleep, and in waking up. Maume’s study will examine how gender inequality in waking role obligations (e,g., whose job is more important to the family’s finances? who is most responsible for children’s welfare?) affects patterns of sleeping. Conventional wisdom suggests that women’s caregiving roles results in their getting less sleep than men. But, but by interviewing couples, Maume’s study will verify whether men’s reputed increased contributions to family life disrupts their sleep as well.
Kunz Center awarded grant to study girls’ deviance
Unfortunately, girls are catching up to boys in their rates of substance abuse and the psychological distress this causes. Yet, little systematic research has been done on the causes of girls’ deviance. To rectify this, The Women’s Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation awarded a grant to the Kunz Center to study the strength of girls’ bonds to family, schools, churches, and communities, and how these bonds affect substance use and mental health. In 2008, David Maume (Kunz Center Director and Professor of Sociology), and his students, Hara Bastas and Amanda Straight, will examine responses to the bi-annual “Personal Drug Use” survey, to determine the pathways by which girls get into trouble, compare these pathways to more abundant research on boys’ deviance, and make recommendations for how to “grow strong girls” who are more likely to grow into mature and productive adults. This project will realize the second policy recommendation (“grow strong girls’) that emerged from the 2004-05 collaboration between the Kunz Center and The Women’s Fund on “PULSE: A study on the status of women and girls in the greater Cincinnati area.”