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33
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3399

Joan C. Williams publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joan C. Williams sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 129 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Joan C. Williams D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joan C. Williams sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 33 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Joan C. Williams is affiliated with the University of California Hastings College of the Law in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains primarily within social sciences and medicine, with significant contributions to public health, gender studies, sociology, political science, marketing, and psychology.

The scientist's work focuses on areas including diversity and career in medicine, consumer retail behavior, work-family balance challenges, healthcare policy and management, global health workforce issues, as well as aviation industry analysis and transportation planning.

Recent publications by Joan C. Williams include:

  • Stable Scheduling Study: Health Outcomes Report, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal

Other notable recent papers associated with their research topics, though authored by collaborators, include:

  • Doing Well by Doing Good: Improving Retail Store Performance with Responsible Scheduling Practices at the Gap, Inc., 2022, Management Science
  • Documenting the Routine Burden of Devalued Difference in the Professional Workplace, 2022, Gender & Society
  • Childbearing Among Women Cardiologists, 2022, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • The Health Care Provider's Role in Securing Work Accommodations for Pregnant and Postpartum Patients, 2020, Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health

Joan C. Williams has also contributed to book publications, including:

  • What Works for Women at Work, 2020, New York University Press eBooks

Frequent co-authors of Joan C. Williams include:

  • Rachel Dempsey
  • Rachel Korn
  • Jessica Lee
  • Saravanan Kesavan
  • Susan J. Lambert

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • New York University Press eBooks
  • Management Science
  • Gender & Society
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Best Publications

  • Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It

    Joan Frye Williams

  • Cultural Schemas, Social Class, and the Flexibility Stigma

    Joan C. Williams;Mary Blair-Loy;Jennifer L. Berdahl

  • Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter

    Joan C. Williams

  • Beyond the Maternal Wall: Relief for Family Caregivers Who Are Discriminated Against on the Job

    Joan C. Williams;Nancy Segal

  • Work as a Masculinity Contest

    Jennifer L. Berdahl;Marianne Cooper;Peter Glick;Robert W. Livingston

  • Beyond Work-Life "Integration".

    Joan C. Williams;Jennifer L. Berdahl;Joseph A. Vandello

  • Gender wars: selfless women in the republic of choice.

    Joan C. Williams

  • The Maternal Wall

    Faye J. Crosby;Joan C. Williams;Monica Biernat

  • DISSOLVING THE SAMENESS/DIFFERENCE DEBATE: A POST-MODERN PATH BEYOND ESSENTIALISM IN FEMINIST AND CRITICAL RACE THEORY

    Joan C. Williams

  • Is Coverture Dead? Beyond a New Theory of Alimony

    Joan C. Williams

  • The glass ceiling and the maternal wall in academia

    Joan C. Williams

  • Critical Legal Studies: The Death of Transcendence and the Rise of the New Langdells

    Joan C. Williams

  • The Rhetoric of Property

    Joan C. Williams

  • What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know

    Joan Frye Williams;Rachel Dempsey;Anne-Marie Slaughter

  • The Constitutional Vulnerability of American Local Government: The Politics of City Status in American Law

    Joan C. Williams

  • The Three Faces of Work-Family Conflict: The Poor, the Professionals, and the Missing Middle

    Joan C. Williams;Heather Boushey

  • The Evolution Of “FReD”: Family Responsibilities Discrimination And Developments In The Law Of Stereotyping And Implicit Bias

    Joan C. Williams;Stephanie Bornstein

  • Redesigning, Redefining Work

    Shelley J. Correll;Erin L. Kelly;Lindsey Trimble O’Connor;Joan C. Williams

  • Stability and transformation in gender, work, and family: insights from the second shift for the next quarter century

    Mary Blair-Loy;Arlie Hochschild;Allison J. Pugh;Joan C. Williams

  • Pluralistic Ignorance and the Flexibility Bias: Understanding and Mitigating Flextime and Flexplace Bias at Work:

    Christin L. Munsch;Cecilia L. Ridgeway;Joan C. Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Monica Biernat
Monica Biernat University of Kansas
Mary Blair-Loy
Mary Blair-Loy University of California, San Diego
Amy J. C. Cuddy
Amy J. C. Cuddy Harvard University
Joseph A. Vandello
Joseph A. Vandello University of South Florida
Cecilia L. Ridgeway
Cecilia L. Ridgeway Stanford University
Peter Glick
Peter Glick Lawrence University
Nancy L. Segal
Nancy L. Segal California State University, Fullerton
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Anne-Marie Slaughter Princeton University

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