In my research, I strive to triangulate on how and why workplace inequality emerges, with a specific focus on gender, and to identify what can be done to help close these inequities.
One stream of my research focuses on how organizational, network, and market processes directly perpetuate gender differences. For example, I have shown how the structure of evaluative processes and network dynamics lead to different outcomes for men and women.
In a second research stream, I study the ways men and women respond differently to the same situation or information. In this work, I have demonstrated how men and women differ in the types of employers they prefer when seeking a job.
Across my papers, I use a wide range of methods and empirical approaches based on what is most appropriate for addressing the focal research question. While I primarily leverage field data from a diverse set of contexts and industries, I have also conducted both field and laboratory experiments, interviews, and content analyses.
Published Research
Congruence Between Leadership Gender and Organizational Claims Affects the Gender Composition of the Applicant Pool: Field Experimental Evidence (w/ V. Burbano)
Gender Role Incongruity and Audience-based Gender Bias: The Case of Resource Exchange among Entrepreneurs
Pursuing Quality: How Search Costs and Uncertainty Magnify Gender-based Double Standards in a Multistage Evaluation Process (w/ T. Botelho)
Pay Formalization Revisited: Considering the Effects of Manager Gender and Discretion on Closing the Gender Wage Gap
Research in Progress
Gender Parity in Running for Office: Female and Male Elected Officials Run for Higher Office at Equivalent Rates (w/ K. Wald, K., B. Pike & A. Galinsky)
Status and Compensation (w/ T. Botelho)
From Self-Diagnoses to Change: Organizational Narratives and the Gender Pay Gap (w/ K. Weisshaar)
Downstream Effects of Evaluator Placement (w/T. Botelho & T. Botelho)
Workplace Misconduct and Inequality (w/ E. Bailey & S. Mobasseri)
The Effect of Diversity Claims Decoupling (w/ V. Burbano & J. Carter)
Publications in Popular Press
Uncovering the Drivers of Gender Inequality
To Overcome Gender Bias, Objective Performance Metrics are Not Enough. (w/ T. Botelho)
