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Cynthia Fuchs Epstein (Ph.D., Columbia University) is an eminent sociologist known for her critical theoretical work about gender inequality, the sociology of the professions, women and work, and cultural sociology. She has been a Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York since 1975, attaining the rank of Distinguished Professor in 1990. In 2005, she was the President of the American Sociological Association, a position to which only nine women were elected in the first 100 years of the organization's existence. Her Presidential Address was titled, "Great Divides: The Cultural, Cognitive, and Social Bases of the Global Subordination of Women," and was subsequently published in the American Sociological Review.