Her 1989 landmark book, 'The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home' was a best-seller that has been translated into five other languages.
Author of 'Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right,' which was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award.
Professor of sociology at UC Berkeley since 1971.
Earned a BA from Swarthmore College in 1962; M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.