Rate My Professor Lyn Craig

Lyn Craig is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy in the School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Melbourne, where she has held the position since 2017. She earned her PhD from the University of New South Wales in 2006. Previously, she served as Scientia Professor and Director of the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW Sydney. Craig is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow (Level 3 Professorial Fellowship, 2016-2020), an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia since 2015, and a PLuS Alliance Fellow. She contributes to scholarly governance as a member of the ARC College of Experts, editorial boards of the American Sociological Review and Social Problems, and as Associate Editor of Feminist Economics. Additionally, she is an affiliate of the Centre for Time Use Research at Oxford University, a member of the Executive Council of the International Association for Time Use Research, and serves on the Australian Bureau of Statistics Gender Statistics Advisory Board.

Her research specializations encompass the time impacts of children, care, and social reproduction; motherhood, fatherhood, and gender equity; divisions of domestic labour; work-family balance; and comparative family and social policy. Key publications include her book Contemporary Motherhood: The Impact of Children on Adult Time (Routledge, 2016); "Does Father Care Mean Fathers Share? A Comparison of How Mothers and Fathers in Intact Families Spend Time with Children" (Gender & Society, 2006); "How Mothers and Fathers Share Childcare: A Cross-National Time-Use Comparison" (American Sociological Review, 2011); "Dual-Earner Parent Couples’ Work and Care during COVID-19" (Gender, Work & Organization, 2021); and recent works such as "Working and Caring at Home: Gender Differences in the Effects of COVID-19 on Paid and Unpaid Labor in Australia" (Feminist Economics, 2021), "Gender in the Gig Economy: Men and Women Using Digital Platforms to Secure Work in Australia" (Journal of Sociology, 2019), and articles on grandparental childcare and policy implications for employment transitions. Her scholarship, with thousands of citations, has advanced understandings of gendered time use patterns, unpaid care work, and policy interventions for gender equity in labor markets and families across nations.