An extensive and long-standing literature examines the amount of time people spend on
their jobs and families. A newer literature, including this review, takes that older literature as …

The gender imbalance in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields has
remained constant for decades and increases the farther up the STEM career pipeline one …

Overloadwas first published in March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic was spreading
across the United States and the globe. With states issuing stay-at-home mandates and …

An incisive study showing how cultural ideas of merit in academic science produce unfair
and unequal outcomes. In Misconceiving Merit, sociologists Mary Blair-Loy and Erin A. Cech …

We developed and validated a 20‐item Masculinity Contest Culture (MCC) scale as a
workplace culture assessment. Participants indicated agreement or disagreement with …

How are close personal relationships experienced by people in deeply meaningful work?
Drawing upon in‐depth interview data with 82 international aid workers, I offer three distinct …

Probing the ominous side of career advice to" follow your passion," this data-driven study
explains how the passion principle fails us and perpetuates inequality by class, gender, and …

Contemporary North American work culture is characterized by experts as one of overwork.
Throughout much of the previous century, many parents devoted themselves either to their …

We use a case study of job talks in five engineering departments to analyze the under-
studied area of gendered barriers to finalists for faculty positions. We focus on one segment …

Schedule control is theorized as a job resource that should reduce the extent to which work
demands bleed into nonwork time and decrease work-to-family conflict. However, schedule …