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Michelle BudigAssociate Director, SADRI |
Education and Interests
(PhD., Arizona 2001)
Gender Inequality in Labor Markets, Work and Family Conflict, Feminist Theory, Contingent
Labor and Self-Employment, Quantitative Methods.
Recent Publications
- "Employment, Wages, and Poverty: Reconciliation Policies and Gender Equity." (with Joya Misra and Stephanie Moller). In Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Forthcoming 2007.
- "Intersections on the Road to Self-Employment: Gender, Family, and Occupational Class." In Social Forces, 2006.
- "Gender, Self-Employment, and Earnings: The Interlocking Structures of Gender, Family, and Professional Status." In Gender and Society, 2006.
- "Feminism and the Family." In The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of the Family, edited by Scott, Treas, and Richards. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2004
- "Activity, Proximity, or Responsibility? Measuring Parental Childcare Time." (with Nancy Folbre). In Family Time: The Social Organization of Care, edited by Folbre and Bittman. New York: Routledge, 2004.
- "Are Women's Employment and Fertility Histories Interdependent? An Examination of Causal Order Using Event History Analysis." In Social Science Research Review 2003.
- "Male Advantage and the Gender Composition of Jobs: Who Rides the Glass Escalator?" In Social Problems, 2002.
- "Wages of Virtue: The Relative Pay of Care Work." (with Paula England and Nancy Folbre). In Social Problems, 2002.
- "The Wage Penalty for Motherhood." (with Paula England). In American Sociological Review, 2001.
- "Labor Market Regulation and the Growth of Self-Employment." (with Richard Arum and Donald S. Grant). In International Journal of Sociology, 2001.
Recent Presentations
- "Self-Employment Participation and Earnings: The Effects of Gender, Family, and Professional Status." Cornell University, Department of Organizational Behavior (Ithaca, New York). 2006.
- "Racial Differences and Similarities Among Childless, Only-Child, and Multiple Children American Women, 1988-2001." With Jennifer Lundquist. National Center for Health Statistics National Survey of Family Growth Research Conference (Hyattsville, MD). 2006.
- "Employment, Wages, and Poverty: Reconciliation Policies and Gender Equity." With Joya Misra and Stephanie Moller. American Sociological Association (Philadelphia, PA). 2005.
- "The Wage Penalty for Motherhood." Congressional Briefing sponsored by the Center for Economic Policy Analysis (Washington, DC). 2005.
- "Mother-Workers and Glass Ceiling Breakers: Dual Pathways to Women's Self-Employment Participation." International Sociological Association conference on Work-Life Balance Across the Lifecourse (Edinburgh, Scotland). 2004.
- "Why Are Some Academic Fields Tipping towards Female?" With Paula England, Paul Allison, and Sun Li. Population Association of America (Boston, MA). 2004.
- "The Wage Penalties of Caring Occupations and Caring for Children." Eastern Sociological Association (New York City). 2004.
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