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Graff collaborated on former Massachusetts Lt. The book revealed the fact that the gender wage gap had remained steady for more than a decade, and that much of the gap was then and continues to be due to illegal discrimination, not motherhood or personal choices. The book brought together in one place—for the first time—a list of sex discrimination settlements and jury awards, exposing the extent of sex discrimination in the U.
The book was praised in such outlets as The Washington Post and the Boston Globe, and stayed on bestseller lists for weeks at a time. Published five years before any U. The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution," examined 2, years of a central pillar of social life—and asked why, for the first time in history, Western society is opening the institution to same-sex couples. In writing "What Is Marriage For?
The book is a historical primer for many contemporary marriage and family debates: about love, sex, and money; mothers, fathers, and others; living together versus taking vows; pre-nups and divorce decrees; first vows and last rites; and how, between and , love triumphed over money as a reason for getting and staying married.
As a result, Graff repeatedly appeared as a guest expert in film and television documentaries, and on radio and television talk shows, both in the U. Reviews, commentary, excerpts, and interviews with the author appeared in major publications nationwide, such as The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Utne Reader, and in several social issues anthologies.
The Chicago Tribune called it "an enlightening romp through the history of marriage in western Europe and the U. The story of abandoned or orphaned infants and toddlers in developing countries who need to be whisked away to adoring moms and dads in faraway lands is, unfortunately, largely fiction.
As her work revealed, the disproportionately large amounts of Western money offered in poor or corrupt countries can too often induce unscrupulous middlemen to buy, coerce, defraud, or kidnap children away from families that would have raised them to adulthood. Her in-depth series of articles, resulting from several years of research conducted while on staff at the Schuster Institute, exposed the fact that while millions of children are in dire need around the world, the ones who need new families are overwhelmingly either five or older, or have extensive special medical needs.
To enable interested readers and policymakers to examine and weigh the evidence for themselves, Graff and the Schuster Institute organized and posted online scores of pages of background documents that included news reports, academic research, and government and NGO materials. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEOC started seeing a sharp increase in the number and severity of sexual harassment complaints from teenage workers on their after-school, weekend, and summer jobs.
Graff and the Schuster Institute created a microsite full of what parents, journalists, employers, and policymakers need to know about sexual harassment of teenage workers. Graff has been writing about what are now called LGBT issues since , first in small-circulation gay and lesbian newspapers, and later on the Scripps-Howard newswires and in mainstream and thought-leader publications. In in The New York Times Magazine, Graff was the first national reporter to write about the bifurcated tax filing status that faced Massachusetts same-sex couples who were married under state law, but single to the United States government.
She has written widely about the current status of same-sex partnership recognition laws around the globe, from Amsterdam to Israel to India, leading to invitations as a keynote speaker at international human rights conferences in Turin, Italy and in Toronto, Canada.
In , Graff covered the Lawrence v. Texas Supreme Court oral arguments, after having reported extensively on the unjust ways in which American sodomy laws were used. For instance, men and women who acknowledged being gay or lesbian were denied employment or child custody on the grounds that they were admitted felons—i.
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