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Julie Brines is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington. She received her BSc from Western Washington University and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1990. Her research examines how gender influences the division of labor in families, focusing on the implications of these arrangements for family stability and how they are shaped by legal and economic environments. Brines integrates interests in gender, sexualities, family relations, stratification, and the economics of households with social psychology of close relationships. She has authored widely-cited papers on economic dependency, gender, and the division of household labor. Her recent paper, co-authored with Sabino Kornrich and Katrina Leupp, investigates the relationship between household task division and sexual frequency in marriages, proposing a new framework for understanding how gender roles affect couples' sex lives. Her research has garnered international media attention, with coverage from BBC, Scientific American, and U.S. News. Brines is involved in research on income-driven disparities in health care access among families and the effects of nonstandard employment on dual-earner households. She also collaborates on projects exploring the impact of unemployment and housing market changes on marital disruption, particularly in the aftermath of the Great Recession.
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