Upskilled and reskilled : how gender shapes career transitions in the new economy
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation broadly explores how stereotypes about gender shape career transitions. Using two online survey experiments, Chapter 1 examines how hiring discrimination against stay-at-home fathers who reskill using career re-entry assistance reinforces cultural expectations around gender and caregiving. Chapter 2 investigates how employers' treatment of stay-at-home fathers (identified in Chapter 1) shifted during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the implications for gendered norms around work and family. Chapter 3 leverages rare pre- and post-COVID-19 survey and administrative data to determine whether an online intervention improved early-career women's confidence in their interpersonal skills at work, an important predictor of workplace retention among women. Together, these papers shed light on the structural and social barriers to gender equality, and the types of interventions that might be used to help mitigate their effects.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Melin, Julia Lee |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Correll, Shelley Joyce |
| Thesis advisor | Correll, Shelley Joyce |
| Thesis advisor | Gerson, Kathleen |
| Thesis advisor | Kiviat, Barbara |
| Thesis advisor | Pedulla, David S, 1982- |
| Thesis advisor | Sterling, Adina |
| Degree committee member | Gerson, Kathleen |
| Degree committee member | Kiviat, Barbara |
| Degree committee member | Pedulla, David S, 1982- |
| Degree committee member | Sterling, Adina |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Julia L. Melin. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/bk652js4686 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Julia Lee Melin
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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