Stephanie Coontz

• Author of  7 books including A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique — and the award-winning Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage which was cited in the US Supreme Court decision on marriage equality.
• Director of Research and Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families.
• She received the Council on Contemporary Families’ first-ever (and only) “Visionary Leadership” Award and the Dale Richmond Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics for “outstanding contributions to the field of child development.”
• Coontz has testified about her research before the House Select Committee on
  Children, Youth and Families in Washington, DC, and keynoted professional conferences in Taiwan, China, Japan, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, and across America. She has also appeared on The Colbert Report, Today Show, Oprah Winfrey, almost every NPR talk show, PBS News Hour, CBS This Morning, and MSNBC’s “The Cycle.”
• Available for writing workshops!

New Lecture Topic! “Uncharted Territory: The American Family in the 21st Century”.

This talk explains how new patterns of marriage, work, parenting, growing up, and growing old are changing American life, from the boardroom to the bedroom. Essential information for businesses, policy-makers, educators and other professionals who want to better understand how their clients, customers, constituencies, and employees — not to mention their own families — are changing.