Catherine Hakim

**Catherine Hakim** (født 30. mai 1948) er en britisk sosiolog og seniorforsker ved London School of Economics. Hakims hovedinteresser er arbeidsliv, kvinners yrkesdeltagelse og forskningsmetode. Hun er best kjent for å ha utviklet preferanseteorien, og for å være kritisk til feministiske synspunkter på kvinners arbeid. Hakim har også utviklet en teori om erotisk kapital. Hakims forskning har hatt et stort politisk gjennomslag, blant annet i Australia.

Hakim har vært avdelingsdirektør for forskning (*Principal*) i Arbeidsdepartementet i Storbritannia i ti år og direktør for ESRC Data Archive (tilsvarende NSD) 1989–1990. Hun har vært seniorforsker ved LSE siden 1990. Hun er medlem av redaksjonsrådene i *[[European Sociological Review]]* og *International Sociology*.

Hun er opprinnelig fra Midtøsten og kom til Storbritannia for kostskole som 16-åring.

## Utvalgte publikasjoner
### Bøker

* *Little Britons: Financing Childcare Choice* (Policy Exchange, 2008), with Karen Bradley, Emily Price and Louisa Mitchell. ISBN 9781906097219
* *Modelos de Familia en las Sociedades Modernas: Ideales y Realidades* (Centro de Investigaciónes Sociológicas, 2005). ISBN 978-84-7476-378-2
* *Key Issues in Women’s Work* (Glasshouse Press, 1996, 2004). ISBN 1904385168
* *Models of the Family in Modern Societies: Ideals and Realities* (Ashgate, 2003). ISBN 0754644065
* *Work-Lifestyle Choices in the 21st Century: Preference Theory* (Oxford University Press, 2000). With a Preface by Anthony Giddens. ISBN 0199242100
* *Research Design: Successful Designs for Social and Economic Research* (Routledge, 2000). ISBN 9780415223126
* *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, 1998). ISBN 019829381X
* *Secondary analysis in social research*, London : Allen & Unwin, 1982, ISBN 0043120156, ISBN 0043120164

### Utvalgte artikler

* Hakim, Catherine. "Developing a sociology for the twenty-first century: Preference Theory". *[[British Journal of Sociology]]* **49** (1998): 137–43.
* Hakim, Catherine. "A New Approach to Explaining Fertility Patterns: Preference Theory". *[[Population and Development Review]]* **29** (2004): 349–374.
* Hakim, Catherine, 'Women, careers, and work-life preferences', British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 34: 279-294, August 2006.
* Hakim, Catherine, `Public morality versus personal choice: the failure of social attitude surveys', British Journal of Sociology, 54: 339-45, September 2003.
* Hakim, Catherine, `Lifestyle preferences as determinants of women's differentiated labour market careers', Work and Occupations, 29: 428-459, November 2002.
* Hakim, Catherine, `The politics of female diversity in the 21st century', pp. 191-227 in The Future of Gender (ed) J Browne, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
* Hakim, Catherine, `Sex differences in work-life balance goals', pp 55-79 in Work-Life Balance in the Twenty-First Century (ed) D Houston, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
* Hakim, Catherine, `Lifestyle preferences versus patriarchal values: causal and non-causal attitudes', pp. 69-91 in Changing Life Patterns in Western Industrial Societies (eds) J Z Giele and E Holst, Oxford: Elsevier, January 2004.
* Hakim, Catherine. "Erotic Capital". *[[European Sociological Review]]*, 26:499–518, 2010
* Hakim, Catherine, 'Women's lifestyle preferences in the 21st century: Implications for family policy' in The Future of Motherhood in Europe (eds) J Schippers, G Beets and E te Velde, Dordrecht NL and Hingham MA: Springer, April 2011.

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