Phyllis Moen received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Minnesota, and both her M.A. in sociology and B.A. in social science from the University of North Dakota.  Dr. Moen teaches and conducts research at the University of Minnesota on life-course transitions and trajectories related to work and family careers over the life course, aging and gender stratification, and family policy.

In 1997 she received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to establish the Cornell Employment and Family Careers Institute to conduct research, education and outreach in order to promote understanding of the dramatic changes in these two fundamental institutions - work and family. The institute serves to highlight the simultaneous and shifting relationships among work organizations, community institutions, occupational careers, and family careers.  A key focus is on assessing the economic, social, and psychological consequences of various career trajectories and family strategies in light of the existing policies and practices of work organizations and communities. 

In addition to her duties as Director of the Cornell Careers Institute, Dr. Moen was involved in an ongoing research project (part of the Cornell Gerontological Research Institute funded by the National Institute on Aging) to examine baby boomers' midcareer planning of the retirement transition as well as analyzing panel data on the actual transition of older workers and retirees in their 50s, 60s, and 70s (the Cornell Retirement and Well-being Study). Prior to this, Dr Moen was the Director of the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center, a university-wide multidisciplinary center devoted to the study of life-course paths, transitions, and issues.   

Publications include:

Moen, P., & Han, S.-K. (2001). Reframing Careers: Work, Family, and Gender. In V. Marshall, W. Heinz, H. Krueger, and A. Verma (Eds.), Restructuring Work and the Life Course (pp. 424-445). Canada: University of Toronto Press.

Han, S.-K., & Moen, P. (2001). Coupled careers: Pathways through work and marriage in the United States. In H.-P. Blossfeld and S. Drobnic (Eds.), Careers of couples in contemporary societies: From male breadwinner to dual earner families (pp. 201-231). England: Oxford University Press.

Moen, P. (2001, February). The career quandary. Population Reference Bureau Reports on America, 2.

Pillemer, K., Moen, P., Wethington, E., & Glasgow, N. (Eds.). (2000). Social integration in the second half of life. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press.