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Youngjoo Cha

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My research and teaching interests are in gender, work, labor markets, social inequality, and quantitative methods. The primary goal of my research is to identify various labor market processes that reproduce gender inequality. My dissertation investigates how the increasingly common trend of working long hours contributes to gender inequality by applying advanced quantitative methods to large-scale national data.

Dissertation: Overwork and the Persistence of Gender Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market

Committee: Kim Weeden (chair), Shelley Correll, Stephen Morgan, Elizabeth Hirsh

Sarah Thébaud

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My research is united by my interest in the social processes that generate and reproduce inequality in economic development, work and families. Focusing on cross-cultural comparisons, it integrates theory and methods from the areas of Gender, Economic Sociology, Social Psychology, Work and Labor Markets, Inequality/Stratification, Organizations and Social Policy. In my dissertation, I draw on laboratory studies I conducted in two countries and quantitative analysis of cross-national survey data to investigate how cultural beliefs about gender and social policies together contribute to gender inequality in entrepreneurship across industrialized countries.

Dissertation: Cultural Beliefs, Social Policies and the Maintenance of Gender Inequality in Entrepreneurship across Industrialized Nations

Committee: Shelley J. Correll and Kim A. Weeden (Co-Chairs), Richard Swedberg

Catherine J. Taylor

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My research combines interests in several areas: social inequality, gender, social psychology, and stress response. My dissertation focuses on the relationship between minority status, social integration, and socially induced stress response. I document the experiences of people in the minority by sex in the workplace using nationally-representative data, laboratory experiments, and bio-measures of stress. I explore how social structures and individual physiological responses interact to create and maintain social systems, especially systems of inequality. I theorize that social arrangements influence biological outcomes, which in turn contribute to the reproduction of social inequality. In addition to these core interests I have pursed other projects along three lines: 1) using social psychological theories to understand organizational outcomes 2) understanding gendered career paths in academia and 3) making links between gender ideologies and political beliefs.

Dissertation: Understanding the Effects of Minority Status and Social Exclusion in the Workplace: A Biosocial Approach.

Committee: Shelley Correll (chair), Edward Lawler, Elaine Wethington