About Virginia Rutter
Author of the column, Nice Work, appearing the last Monday of every month.
Virginia Rutter, PhD, has been working at the intersection of academia and media for two decades: first in DC in Congress and at a mental health organization, and (during and after her phd at the University of Washington) as a sociologist translating academic ideas to general audiences. The author of two books (The Gender of Sexuality and The Love Test, both with Pepper Schwartz) and numerous articles for Psychology Today, Virginia has written on topics including divorce, marriage, gender, sexuality, stepfamilies, adolescence, infidelity, depression, women in science, psychotherapy research, couples therapy, and domestic violence. She gives talks and workshops on representations of gender in the media, and how, why, and when academics should work with the media. She has been seen and heard in the Boston Globe, The New York Times, NPR programs, the Associated Press, the Hartford Courant, Daily Variety, USA Today, cnn.com, and various liberal and conservative radio programs. She was a co-investigator of the NIH-funded National Couples Survey and a public policy fellow at the National Academies of Science, and currently she is Professor of Sociology at Framingham State University, in Framingham, MA, a board member of the Council on Contemporary Families, and a single stepmother/widowlady. Her Girl with Pen column, Nice Work, appears the last Monday of every month.
Follow Virginia on Twitter: @virginiarutter
Past Posts
- NICE WORK: Gender & Society asks/answers: Midwest or Lesbian? – December 11, 2012
- NICE WORK: Essential(ist) reading from n+1 on The Atlantic – November 30, 2012
- NICE WORK: The end of …pay inequity? Not so much – October 29, 2012
- NICE WORK: Going all Wollstonecraft? Not really – September 30, 2012
- NICE WORK: Will the real BDSM please stand up (by Rademacher and Walters) – August 27, 2012
- NICE WORK: Yo, is this ageist? Ashton Applewhite tells us – July 30, 2012
- NICE WORK: Who knew? Dudes in traditional marriages are traditional at work too – June 29, 2012
- NICE WORK: Research Taking Men for Granted – May 29, 2012
- NICE WORK: New conventions from Council on Contemporary Families – April 30, 2012
- NICE WORK: Gender Revolution? Or Not So Much? – March 26, 2012
- NICE WORK: still with the double standard? nu? – February 29, 2012
- NICE WORK: Exploring Sexual Possibilities in The Gender of Sexuality – February 6, 2012
- NICE WORK: For the Family? – September 26, 2011
- NICE WORK: Hello VZN? Union Busting Is Disgusting – August 22, 2011
- NICE WORK: This is what heteronormativity looks like – July 25, 2011
- NICE WORK: Sex Scandals and TMI – June 15, 2011
- NICE WORK: unions matter to women – June 1, 2011
- NICE WORK: Everything old is new again, including sex – April 30, 2011
- NICE WORK: Remembering Peggy – April 24, 2011
- NICE WORK: Waiting for Superwoman – March 28, 2011
- NICE WORK: Women/One Woman in the Public Sector – March7, 2011
- NICE WORK: Review of ‘Stirring Reviews – February 5, 2011
- NICE WORK: A Strange Stirring by Stephanie Coontz – January 31, 2011
- NICE WORK: Gender inequality that doesn’t put you to sleep – January 24, 2011
- NICE WORK in cali: family leave works! – January 11, 2011
- NICE WORK: who gets the daddy bonus? – January 7, 2011
- NICE WORK: Doing Time = Doing Gender – November 15, 2010
- NICE WORK: dirty sex and the double standard – October 24, 2010
- NICE WORK: something you already know about gender & wages – August 23, 2010
- NICE WORK: more sneaky gender inequality – July 28, 2010
- NICE WORK: a totally excellent change for the work place – July 1, 2010
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