John DeCecco CERES/Psychology, San Francisco State University, USA

Scott Coltrane is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. He is co-author, with Randall Collins, of Sociology of Marriage and the Family. In addition to Gender and Families, he is author of Family Man: Fatherhood, Housework, and Gender Equity (1996, Oxford University Press), winner of The American Library Association's CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award.