Deutsch, Francine, 1948-

Francine M. Deutsch (born 1948) is an American writer and professor emeritus at the Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts since 1981. She is a professor of Psychology and Education. She is specialized in the social psychology of gender in everyday life, gender inequality at home and in labour market, and the educational trajectories of pre-school teachers. She worked on the link between unequal earning, young children at home and domestic inequality in household duties. She is interested in how people's lives are structured by gender. She did a lot of qualitative studies about couples who have established equality at home, or not. In reference to the article by Candace West and Zimmerman, Doing Gender, she did a reflection about how to undo gender in everyday life in her article Undoing Gender. She did a lot of recognized works about equal parenting. In 2000, she wrote a book about that, Halving it All, How Equally Shared Parenting Works, using her interviews with families and couples egalitarian or unequal couples by trying to understand what factors affect this equality. She is a member of PRESAGE (Research and Educational Programme on Gender Studies) program at Sciences Po Paris. Deutsch received her BA from Carnegie-Mellon University and her PhD in social psychology from Columbia University.