Career
He is professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and an affiliate of the Population Studies Center, the Graduate School of Education, the Women's Studies Program, and the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics at Pennsylvania He has served as the Editor of the American Sociological Review and President of the Eastern Sociological Society. Professor Jacobs’ studies have addressed a number of aspects of women"s employment, including authority, earnings, working conditions, part-time work and work-family conflict, and entry into male-dominated occupations.
Professor Jacobs has published five books, 75 research papers, and 15 book reviews.
His research projects include a study of interdisciplinary scholarly communication in the area of work-family research, funded by the Aflred P. Sloan Foundation, and in the area of educational research, funded by the Lyle M.
