Rosanna Hertz is an American academic, educator, and sociologist. She is the chair of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College, where she has taught since 1983 as a professor of

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and Women's and Gender Studies. She chaired the Women's and Gender Studies Department from 1999 to 2008 and then again from 2012 to 2016. She was president of the

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from 2009 to 2010. She authored ''Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women Are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family'' (

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, 2006, ) and ''More Equal Than Others: Women and Men in Dual-Career Marriages'' (

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, 1986, ), as well as numerous sociological articles.

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