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The Intersectionality of Precarity by Misra, Joya

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Stop Discounting Retail Workers by Walters, Kyla, Misra, Joya

“…Retail workers are strong in numbers, but union density is weak. Transformation of the retail sector is possible. Returning stability to these jobs would…”
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Gendered and Racialized Perceptions of Faculty Workloads by Misra, Joya, Kuvaeva, Alexandra, O’meara, Kerryann, Culpepper, Dawn Kiyoe, Jaeger, Audrey

“…Faculty workload inequities have important consequences for faculty diversity and inclusion. On average, women faculty spend more time engaging in service,…”
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Work-family policy trade-offs for mothers? Unpacking the cross-national variation in motherhood earnings penalties by Budig, Michelle J, Misra, Joya, Boeckmann, Irene

“…Recent scholarship suggests welfare state interventions, as measured by policy indices, create gendered trade-offs wherein reduced work–family conflict…”
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Gender Inequality at Work by Misra, Joya

“…A review essay on books by 1) Ruth Milkman, On Gender, Labor, and Inequality (2016); & 2) Elaine Howard Ecklund, Anne E. Lincoln, Failing Families, Failing…”
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Undoing disparities in faculty workloads: A randomized trial experiment by O'Meara, KerryAnn, Jaeger, Audrey, Misra, Joya, Lennartz, Courtney, Kuvaeva, Alexandra

“…We conducted a randomized control study to improve equity in how work is taken up, assigned and rewarded in academic departments. We used a four-part…”
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Transnational feminist sociology by Misra, Joya, Rozario, Tannuja Devi, Chakraborty, Debadatta

“…This review essay explores a number of key books published in transnational feminist sociology over the last 20 years, including Kamala Kempadoo’s (2004)…”
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Work-family policies and the effects of children on women's employment hours and wages by Misra, Joya, Budig, Michelle, Boeckmann, Irene

“…Welfare state generosity around work-family policies appears to have somewhat contradictory effects, at least for some measures of gender equality. Work-family…”
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Review of "The Problem with Work," by Kathi Weeks by Misra, Joya

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Work-Family Policies and Poverty for Partnered and Single Women in Europe and North America by Misra, Joya, Moller, Stephanie, Budig, Michelle J.

“…Work—family policy strategies reflect gendered assumptions about the roles of men and women within families and therefore may lead to significantly different…”
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The Terrapin Time Initiative: A Workshop to Enhance Alignment between Faculty Work Priorities and Time-Use by Culpepper, Dawn, Kilmer, Sarah, O’Meara, Kerry Ann, Misra, Joya, Jaeger, Audrey J.

“…Faculty members experience a gap between how they would prefer to spend their work time and how they actually do so. In this article we report results from a…”
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Collaboration and Gender Equity among Academic Scientists by Misra, Joya, Smith-Doerr, Laurel, Dasgupta, Nilanjana, Weaver, Gabriela, Normanly, Jennifer

“…Universities were established as hierarchical bureaucracies that reward individual attainment in evaluating success. Yet collaboration is crucial both to 21st…”
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Visualizing Feminized International Migration Flows in the 1990s by Leal, Diego F., Malhotra, Ragini Saira, Misra, Joya

“…The authors estimate migration flows of women in the 1990s at a global scale and provide a description of these migratory movements. The authors produce these…”
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The Challenges and Joys of Publicly Engaged Sociology by Misra, Joya

“…In this essay, I lay out my motivations for doing publicly engaged sociology, emphasizing both the joys and the challenges of this work, and some of the key…”
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All Fun and Cool Clothes? Youth Workers’ Consumer Identity in Clothing Retail by Misra, Joya, Walters, Kyla

“…Retail offers notoriously bad jobs that exist at the nexus of work and consumption. Previous brand-based retail studies assert that youth workers see the…”
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Motherhood Penalties in the U.S., 1986–2014 by Jee, Eunjung, Misra, Joya, Murray‐Close, Marta

“…Objective This article aims to determine whether the wage penalty for motherhood changed in the United States between 1986 and 2014 and to assess the relative…”
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Gender, Work Time, and Care Responsibilities Among Faculty by Misra, Joya, Lundquist, Jennifer Hickes, Templer, Abby

“…This study explores how faculty at one research-intensive university spend their time on research, teaching, mentoring, and service, as well as housework,…”
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The persistence of neoliberal logics in faculty evaluations amidst Covid‐19: Recalibrating toward equity by Mickey, Ethel L., Misra, Joya, Clark, Dessie

“…In this paper, we theorize the intersectional gendered impacts of COVID‐19 on faculty labor, with a particular focus on how institutions of higher education in…”
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The Intersection of Gender and Race in the Labor Market by Browne, Irene, Misra, Joya

“…This review investigates scholarship on the intersection of race and gender, with a particular focus on the U.S. labor market. We ask the following questions:…”
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Methods of intersectional research by Misra, Joya, Curington, Celeste Vaughan, Green, Venus Mary

“…Intersectionality is a powerful concept within sociology, urging scholars to consider how an array of socially constructed dimensions of difference intersect…”
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