Gender and American Jews: Patterns in Work, Education, and Family in Contemporary Life »

HARRIET HARTMAN is Professor of Sociology, Rowan University, and President of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry. MOSHE HARTMAN is a retired Professor of Sociology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

A much-anticipated sociological analysis of gender components in contemporary American Jewish life based on the most recent population data

Preface Sylvia Barack Fishman ix

Acknowledgments xi

Chapter 1 An Introduction to Gender and American Jews and the Significance of the Inquiry 1

Part I The Distinctiveness of Gendered Patterns of Secular Achievement Among American Jews

Chapter 2 Education Patterns: The Foundation of Family and Economic Roles 13

Chapter 3 Family Patterns of American Jews 25

Chapter 4 Labor Force Participation and Occupational Achievement 44

Chapter 5 Dual-Earning Patterns of American Jews 88

Part II Ways of Being Jewish and the Distinctive Secular Roles of American Jewish Women and Men

Chapter 6 Gendered Patterns of Jewishness 121

Chapter 7 How Jewishness is Related to Family Patterns of American Jews 152

Chapter 8 How Jewishness is Related to Gendered Patterns of Secular Achievement 172

Chapter 9 How Jewishness is Related to American Jews' Dual-Earning Patterns 203

Chapter 10 Intermarriage and Gendered Patterns of Secular Achievement 230

Part III Conclusions

Chapter 11 Conclusions and a Look to the Future 253

Appendix Statistical Tables 269

Notes 277

References 283

Index 295