Hakim, Catherine 1948-

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HAKIM, Catherine 1948-

PERSONAL: Born May 30, 1948. Education: University of Sussex, B.A. (with honors), 1969; University of Essex, Ph.D., 1974.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, Houghton St., London WC2A 2AE, England; fax: 01-71-955-7405. E-mail[email protected].

CAREER: Conducted field research in Caracas, Venezuela, 1969-72; Tavistock Institute, London, England, research officer, 1972-74; British Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (now Office of National Statistics), London, senior research officer, 1974-78; British Department of Employment, London, principal research officer, 1978-89; University of Essex, Colchester, Essex, England, professor of sociology and director of ESRC Data Archive, 1989-90; University of London, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, began as Morris Ginsberg fellow, became senior research fellow in sociology, 1993—.

MEMBER: Royal Statistical Society (fellow), British Sociological Association, Social Policy Association.

WRITINGS:

(With W. R. Hawes) Labour Force Statistics, Open University Press (Milton Keynes, England), 1982.

Secondary Analysis in Social Research: A Guide to Data Sources and Methods with Examples, Allen & Unwin (London, England), 1982.

Research Design: Strategies and Choices in the Design of Social Research, Allen & Unwin (London, England), 1987.

Key Issues in Women's Work: Female Heterogeneity and the Polarisation of Women's Employment, Athlone Press/Continuum (London, England), 1996.

(Editor, with H.-P. Blossfeld, and contributor) Between Equalization and Marginalization: Women Working Part-time in Europe and the USA, Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), 1997.

Social Change and Innovation in the Labour Market: Evidence from the Census SARs on Occupational Segregation and Labour Mobility, Part-time Work and Student Jobs, Homework and Self-Employment, Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), 1998.

Research Design: Successful Designs for Social and Economic Research, Routledge (New York, NY), 2000.

Work-Lifestyle Choices in the 21st Century: Preference Theory, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2000.

Models of the Family in Modern Societies: Ideals and Realities, Ashgate Publishing (Aldershot, England), 2003.

Contributor to books, including Censuses, Surveys, and Privacy, edited by M. Bulmer, Macmillan (London, England), 1979; Essays on the History of British Sociological Research, edited by M. Bulmer, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England), 1985; Understanding Unemployment: New Perspectives on Active Labour Market Policies, edited by E. McLaughlin, Routledge (London, England), 1992; and Rewriting the Sexual Contract, edited by G. Dench, Transaction Publishers (New Brunswick, NJ), 1999. Contributor of about forty articles to professional journals, including European Societies, British Journal of Sociology, European Sociological Review, Work, Employment, and Society, Journal of Historical Sociology, and International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations.

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