[2] From January - March 2018 she was a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study based at Durham University, and affiliated with St Mary's College.
Her book, Gender Vertigo: American Families in Transition (1998, Yale University Press) is an early presentation of this theory.
In this monograph, Risman introduces a theoretical framework that conceptualizes gender as a social structure, comprising three distinct but interlocking levels – individual, interactional, and institutional.
The monograph includes research on single fathers as parents, how baby boom women balance work and family, and egalitarian couples.
This is a major revision of her argument about how social change towards gender equality might effectively occur with far more attention to cultural issues.
These include, but are not limited to, analyses of double standards in hooking up,[4][5] men's talk about home cooking,[6] involvement in gay and lesbian rights activism,[7] sexual violence on college campuses,[8] the “ex-gay” movement,[9] gendered migration,[10] the division of housework and child care,[11] and how society can move toward greater gender equality.