Career
She chaired the Women"s and Gender Studies Department from 1999–2008 and then again from 2012-2016. She was president of the Eastern Sociological Society from 2009-2010. Professor Hertz is the author of Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women Are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family (Oxford University Press, 2006) and More Equal Than Others: Women and Men in Dual-Career Marriages (1986), as well as numerous sociological articles