Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made.

ISBN 978-0-399-53244-3. Controversy
Research by Schwartz and others surveying lesbian sexuality has generated debates because the surveys stated that lesbian couples in long-term relationships have less sex than their heterosexual or gay male counterparts. Schwartz also serves as the Love & Relationship Expert & Ambassador for AARP and writes the column The Naked Truth.

Pepper Schwartz PhD is an American sociologist and sexologist teaching at the University of Washington in Seattle Washington United States. Schwartz is notable for her work in the 1970s and early 1980s that culminated in the book with Philip Blumstein American Couples: Money-Work-Sex which surveyed lesbian couples gay male couples and heterosexual couples.