Nona Glazer

Nona Y. Glazer (born 1932) is a professor emerita of sociology and women's studies.

Early life and education

Nona Glazer was born in 1932.

She graduated with a bachelor's degree and master's degree from the University of Oregon, and a PhD from Cornell University.[1]

Career

Glazer co-founded the women's studies program at Portland State University in 1971.[1]

Her research interests are women and work. She defined the concept "work transfer" to describe the redistribution of responsibilities from paid workers to unpaid volunteers.[2] She authored the book Women's Unpaid and Paid Labor, published in 1993 by Temple University Press.[1] It examined women's paid and unpaid work in healthcare and retail, and work transfer in these industries which have shifted labor to women and families.[3]

She served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society from 1976 to 1978,[4] and from 1977 to 1978 was a chair of the sex and gender and the family sections of the American Sociological Association.[1] She was a National Science Foundation fellow.[5]

In 1997, Glazer was awarded the Jessie Bernard Award by the American Sociological Association in recognition of her career.[6]

References
  1. Feminists who changed America, 1963-1975. Barbara J. Love. Urbana. 2006. ISBN 978-0-252-09747-8. OCLC 907774555.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. Smith, Vicki (2013-05-16). Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia. SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781506320939.
  3. Wharton, Amy S. (1996). "Review of Staying on the Line: Blue-Collar Women in Contemporary Japan; Women's Paid and Unpaid Labor: The Work Transfer in Health Care and Retailing; Fast Food, Fast Talk: Service Work and the Routinization of Everyday Life; Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912". Signs. 21 (3): 728–735. doi:10.1086/495104. ISSN 0097-9740. JSTOR 3175177.
  4. "Past Presidents and Officers". Sociologists for Women in Society. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
  5. "Synapse - The UCSF student newspaper 7 March 1985 — UCSF Synapse Archive". synapse.library.ucsf.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-22.
  6. "Jessie Bernard Award". American Sociological Association. 2009-05-29. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
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