Educational inequalities are one of the most critical issues facing contemporary societies.
While there is a substantial body of quantitative literature tracking inequalities in education …

Gender gaps in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) participation
are larger in societies where women have greater freedom of choice. We provide a cultural …

Scientific, technical, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) occupations are strongholds of
gender segregation in the contemporary United States. While many Americans regard this …

I examine how one central aspect of the family environment—sibling sex composition—
affects women's gender conformity. Using Danish administrative data, I causally estimate the …

Much prior research has examined the individual-level, major-specific, and institutional
correlates of college students' choice of major, as well as the variation in labor market …

This chapter provides a broad overview of sociological research on gender ideologies and
their co-constitutive relationships with individuals, social groups, and societies. Gender …

Systemic injustices exclude counter-experts from telling their stories and influencing the
collective imagination. Four papers and some discussant essays illustrate the ways in which …

Occupational choices remain strongly segregated by gender, for reasons not yet fully
understood. In this paper, we use detailed information on the cognitive requirements in 130 …

Previous research suggests an under-representation of women among teleworkers before
the Covid-19 pandemic. However, we know little about whether such a gender gap was …

Is there a relationship between mathematics ability beliefs and STEM degrees? Fields such
as physics, engineering, mathematics, and computer science (PEMC) are thought to require …