Budig, Misra named finalists for Kanter Award
Michelle Budig and Joya Misra of the Sociology Department were finalists for this year’s Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research.
Finalists for the award, a partnership of the Center for Families at Purdue University, the Center for Work and Family at Boston College, and the Alliance of Work-Life Progress, were selected by a rigorous process. More than 35 leading scholars from 12 countries examined more than 2,000 articles published in 74 leading English-language journals. No external nominations were solicited or accepted. A three-stage process led to the final selections; 59 articles were nominated for consideration by the review committee in the first round. The top 20, identified in the second round of reviews became “official” nominees. Five papers were considered finalists during round three of reviews.
The winning article is “Getting a Job: Is there a Motherhood Penalty?” by Shelley Correll, Stephen Benard and In Paik, published in the American Journal of Sociology.
The Kanter Award raises awareness of excellent work-family research among the scholar, consultant and practitioner communities. It fosters debates about what the standards of quality for work-family research should be, and ultimately raises those standards. The award identifies the “best of the best” on which to base graduate education and future research.
The award was previously won in 2005 by Sociology professor Naomi Gerstel and co-author Natalia Sarkisian for their article, “Explaining the Gender Gap in Help to Parents: The Importance of Employment,” which was published in the Journal of Marriage and Family. In 2003, Budig was the winner for her article in Social Problems, “Male Advantage and the Gender Composition of Jobs: Who Rides the Glass Escalator?”
Gerstel, Budig and Misra are all affiliated with the Center for Research on Families.
November 4, 2009.
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