She is also well known for her leadership of The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University, where she served as director from 1982 to 1993. She has published more than 100 scientific papers in such journals as Science, Nature, JAMA, American Psychologist, Hormones and Behavior, MMWR, JPSP, Archives of Internal Medicine, and the British and American Journals of Psychiatry.