WELCOME

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Indiana University – Bloomington. At the core of my research lies the question:

Why does gender inequality persist despite substantial progress in women's material circumstances?

I bring this question to multiple contexts including: (1) the academic career, (2) higher education, and (3) the workplace. I use a range of qualitative and quantitative methods to answer these questions: content analysis of print media, ethnography of college classrooms, in-depth interviews with employees, and survey experiments of a nationally representative sample.

My dissertation uses the most-similar method to construct a comparison case of four men and four women social scientists with similar credentials and degrees of recognition in the public sphere. Through a content analysis of about 1,800 print media articles, I show that women continue to be portrayed as less objective, less professional, and less scientific - even with commensurate credentials and even in the social science disciplines where women are well-represented.