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Campus: CSU Los Angeles -- February 15, 2002
Cal State L.A. Professor to Research Results From Online
Office Sex and Romance Survey
Based on her sabbatical research on the consequences of workplace
romances, Janet Lever, professor of sociology at Cal State L.A.,
wrote the Elle/MSNBC.com Office Sex and Romance Survey, which debuted
on both sites-Elle.com and the health cover page of MSNBC.com-on January
15, 2002.
Anyone can log on and take the survey through February 27. According
to Dr. Lever, it remains to be seen how many Americans will volunteer
such private information on themselves or their colleagues but, she says,
the Web survey promises to be the largest survey on the topic to date.
Results will be published on the Elle.com and MSNBC.com sites in early
May, with expanded coverage in the June issue of Elle magazine.
After sharing results with the public, Dr. Lever will submit articles
to professional journals in management and human resources, as well to
The Journal of Sex Research. This is the fourth mass media survey written
and analyzed by Dr. Lever, who also coauthored Glamour magazine's "Sex
and Health" column from 1991 through 1998.
Dr. Lever, who received her Ph.D. from Yale University, specializes in
gender studies, leisure studies, applied sociology, and the social consequences
of human sexuality. She is also adjunct staff member at RAND in Santa
Monica, California where she researches and writes on sex and health policy
issues. For the past 20 years, Dr. Lever has taught sociology at Yale,
Northwestern, UCLA, UC San Diego, USC and Cal State L.A. She has been
interviewed by CBS on "paraparenting" (formerly known as godparenting)
and by NBC Dateline on "bisexual chic" in a February 1996 news
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