Phyllis Moen recently accepted a McKnight Presidential Chair in Sociology from the University of Minnesota (fall 2003). Prior to that, she served for many years as the Ferris Family Professor of Life Course Studies and Professor of Human Development and of Sociology at Cornell University. Her research focuses on careers, gender and the changing life course, and is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the National Institute on Aging. Her forthcoming book, The Career Mystique: Cracks in the American Dream (2005, with Pat Roehling), addresses the fundamental mismatch between the ways work and retirement are organized and the realities of a changing workforce and an uncertain global economy.   Other books include It's about Time: Couples and Careers (2003), Women's Two Roles (1992) and Working Parents (1989), She has also co-edited Examining Lives in Context (1995), The State of Americans (1996), A Nation Divided (1999), and Social Integration in the Second Half of Life (2000). Moen has also published widely in professional journals on topics related to gender, aging and the life course; work, retirement, civic engagement, and social policy; and the work-family-health interface. Moen received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Minnesota, and served as director of the Sociology Program at the National Science Foundation in the late 1980s. While at Cornell she founded the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center, as well as the Cornell Careers Institute, an Alfred P. Sloan Working Families Center.

Expertise: Phased Retirement