Andrea Doucet | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1960 (age 64–65) |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | BA in Political Theory,York University MA in International Development Studies,Carleton University, PhD,University of Cambridge |
| Occupation(s) | Canada Research Chair in Gender, Work and Care |
| Employer(s) | Carleton University,Brock University |
| Website | www |
Andrea Doucet (born c.1960) is a Canadian social scientist and writer. She is professor of sociology andgender studies atBrock University, and holds theCanada Research Chair in gender, work and care. She was also the editor of the academic journalFathering.
Doucet was born inBathurst, New Brunswick, Canada in 1960,[1] where she grew up in an Anglophone family. Her sister isBBC chief correspondentLyse DoucetOBE.[2]
Doucet completed her BA in political theory atYork University in Toronto and her MA in international development studies at Carleton University. She earned herPhD in social and political sciences in 1995 from Cambridge University.[citation needed]
In 1995 and 1996 Doucet was a post doctoral fellow and lecturer at Cambridge. From 1995 to 1998 she was an assistant professor of sociology atSt. Mary's University inHalifax, Nova Scotia. At Carleton University, she was professor of sociology from 1998 to 2011.
She has been professor of sociology andgender studies atBrock University since 2011. She has also held theCanada Research Chair in gender, work and care since 2011. Doucet is recognized as an "expert in caregiving and work-life balance".[3]
She was an editor of the now defunct academic journal,Fathering: a Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice about Men as Fathers.[4]
In 2009, as sociology professor atCarleton University inOttawa, Ontario, Doucet undertook a study entitled "Bread and Roses Project"[5] in which she tracked couples in which women were the primary earners using data from both Canada and the United States. In a 2010 interview withThe New York Times, Doucet observed that, "With women taking on more earning and men taking on more caring, there's a lot of shifting and juggling. You can't just reverse the genders."[6] In an interview with theNew York Post Doucet explained that "The ambiguity over who does what, and its accompanying stress, is to be expected as gender roles change."The 'mancession' has been difficult on couples. Many have told me that they did not expect to be in this situation. To suddenly have it sprung upon you because of job loss can lead to a rapid and stress-filled learning curve for both men and women."[7] In her projectBread and Roses — And the Kitchen Sink,[8] Doucet said, "It's been just a steady progression of women's education going up and employment going up, but then quite a remarkable leap in women being primary breadwinners or shared primary breadwinners relates to the changes in the economy."[9]
From 1998 to 2002 she was the principal investigator of "Fathers as Primary Caregivers" which received a CanadaSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC),[4] the Canadian federal research funding agency.
