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Barbara F. Reskin

Barbara F. Reskin

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
44
Citations
16083
World Ranking
3994
National Ranking
1898

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association
  • 2006 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Barbara F. Reskin is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their recent research contributions have predominantly appeared in the journal Gender Work and Organization, with publications concentrated in the years 2023 and 2024.

Recent papers include:

  • Issue Information, 2023, Gender Work and Organization
  • Issue Information, 2023, Gender Work and Organization
  • Issue Information, 2023, Gender Work and Organization
  • Issue Information, 2023, Gender Work and Organization
  • Issue Information, 2024, Gender Work and Organization

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Reskin are:

  • Grace Gao
  • Jill Rubery
  • David Knights
  • Deborah Kerfoot
  • Patricia Lewis

Barbara F. Reskin's publication activity is concentrated in the venue Gender Work and Organization, where five of their recent papers have been published.

In recognition of their scholarly contributions, Reskin has received notable awards, including the W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association in 2008 and election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Bad jobs in America: standard and nonstandard employment relations and job quality in the United States

    Arne L. Kalleberg;Barbara F. Reskin;Ken Hudson

  • Women and men at work

    Karyn Loscocco;Barbara Reskin;Irene Padavic

  • Job Queues, Gender Queues: Explaining Women's Inroads into Male Occupations

    Barbara F. Reskin;Patricia A. Roos;Katharine M. Donato

  • Sex Segregation in the Workplace

    Barbara Reskin

  • THE DETERMINANTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF WORKPLACE SEX AND RACE COMPOSITION

    Barbara F. Reskin;Debra B. McBrier;Julie A. Kmec

  • BRINGING THE MEN BACK IN:: Sex Differentiation and the Devaluation of Women's Work

    Barbara F. Reskin

  • Why not ascription? Organizations' employment of male and female managers

    Barbara F. Reskin;Debra Branch McBrier

  • The Proximate Causes of Employment Discrimination

    Barbara F. Reskin

  • The Race Discrimination System

    Barbara Reskin

  • Including Mechanisms in Our Models of Ascriptive Inequality: 2002 Presidential Address

    Barbara F. Reskin

  • Why Not Ascription? Organizations’ Employment of Male and Female Managers

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  • Including Mechanisms in Our Models of Ascriptive Inequality

    Barbara F. Reskin

  • Women's work, men's work : sex segregation on the job

    Barbara F. Reskin;Heidi I. Hartmann

  • Job queues, gender queues

    Barbara Reskin;Patricia A Roos

  • Scientific Productivity and the Reward Structure of Science

    Barbara F. Reskin

  • Jobs, Authority, and Earnings Among Managers The Continuing Significance of Sex

    Barbara F. Reskin;Catherine E. Ross

  • A Sociological Perspective on Gender and Career Outcomes

    Barbara F. Reskin;Denise D. Bielby

  • Sex, Race, and Credentials: The Truth about Affirmative Action in Law Faculty Hiring

    Deborah Jones Merritt;Barbara F. Reskin

  • Academic Sponsorship and Scientists' Careers.

    Barbara F. Reskin

  • Sex segregation in the workplace : trends, explanations, remedies

    Barbara F. Reskin

  • Women and Men at Work.

    Maria Charles;Barbara Reskin;Irene Padavic

Frequent Co-Authors

Arne L. Kalleberg
Arne L. Kalleberg University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen Columbia University
Charles C. Ragin
Charles C. Ragin University of California, Irvine

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