KEYNOTE TITLE: The gender revolution will not be parameterized: rethinking trends in labor market segregation
Kim Weeden is the Jan Rock Zubrow ’77 Professor of Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University.
Dr. Weeden’s research examines inequality in advanced economies, primarily the United States and Europe. Her current and recent projects examine the relationship between family wage gaps and the gender gap in wages; changes in the social organization of work and its impact on the gender gap in pay; patterns and sources of gender, race, and class origin disparities in college major and course selection; the structure of course enrollment networks in college; the impact of gender differences in fields of study in higher education on occupational segregation in labor markets; and intergenerational mobility in the US using linked administrative data. She has also written on occupational closure and the institutional underpinnings of social classes, the sources of rising income inequality, the measurement of multidimensional inequality, and open science practices in sociology.
Her work has appeared in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Demography, European Sociological Review, Sociology of Education, Sociological Science, Social Forces, Nature: Human Behaviour, and Nature, among other outlets.
At Cornell, Dr. Weeden directs the Center for the Study of Inequality and has previously served as department chair, director of the Cornell Center for the Social Sciences, and co-director of Cornell’s NSF-funded center to support the recruitment, retention, and promotion of female faculty in science, engineering, and mathematics fields. She co-founded Sociological Science, served as Deputy Editor for eight years, and now serves on the executive council of the Society for Sociological Science, which oversees the journal. She also recently began a term as Chair of the Board of the General Social Survey.
