Careers in science, engineering, and medicine offer opportunities to advance knowledge,
contribute to the well-being of communities, and support the security, prosperity, and health …

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

Background Quality mentorship is crucial for long‐term success in academia and overall job
satisfaction. Unfortunately, formal mentorship training is lacking, and there is little recourse …

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 …

Science is increasingly defined by multidimensional collaborative networks. Despite the
unprecedented growth of scientific collaboration around the globe–the collaborative turn …

This study advances understanding of gender pay gaps by examining organizational
variation. The gender pay gap literature supplies mechanisms but does not attend to …

Multiple studies from the literature suggest that a high proportion of women on scientific
teams contributes to successful team collaboration, but how the proportion of women …

Scientific breakthroughs for complex, large-scale problems require a combination of
contributory expertize, disciplinary expertize, and interactional expertize, or socialized …

This article examines publication patterns over the last seventy years from the American
Sociological Review and American Journal of Sociology, the two most prominent journals in …

This paper examines the role of gender in the formation of research collaboration networks,
by investigating the composition of networks through connections to diverse professional …