Barbara Reskin

S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology, studies labor market stratification, examining job queues, nonstandard work, sex segregation, and affirmative action. Her current poverty-related research includes studies of affirmative action policies in employment and university admissions, investigations into the mechanisms of work¬place discrimination, and the role of credit markets in income poverty and inequality.

Major Research Projects:

• Organizing Equal Opportunity: How the Workplace Generates and Responds to Discrimination Charges.

Sample Publications:

• Harper, S.; Reskin, B., (2005), Affirmative Action in School and on the Job, Annual Review of Sociology, 31.
  
  
• Reskin, B., (2005), Unconsciousness Raising: Women's Underrepresentation in Top-Level Jobs, Regional Review, 14: 3, 32-37.
  
  
• Reskin, B.; Bielby, D., (2005), A Sociological Perspective on Gender and Career Outcomes, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 19: Winter, 71-86.
  
  
• Reskin, Barbara. (2003), Including Mechanisms in Our Models of Ascriptive Inequality, American Sociological Review, 68(1):1-21.
  
  
• Padavic, Irene and Barbara F. Reskin. (2002), Women and Men at Work (2nd ed.) Pine Forge Press.
  
  
• Reskin, Barbara. (2002), "Rethinking Employment Discrimination." Pp. 218-44 in Mauro F. Guillen, Randall Collins, Paula England, and Marshall Meyer (eds.), The New Economic Sociology: Developments in an Emerging Field, N.Y.: Russell Sage.
  
  
• Reskin, Barbara. (2001),. "Discrimination and Its Remedies." Pp. 567-600 in Ivar Berg and Arne Kalleberg (eds.), Sourcebook on Labor Market Research: Evolving Structures and Processes, N.Y.: Plenum.
  
  
• Reskin, Barbara. (2001), "Sex Segregation at Work." Pp. 13962-13965 in N. J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (editors), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Oxford: Pergamon.

For a complete list of publications by Barbara Reskin, visit her page in the poverty research section of the website.

Relevant Courses:

• SOC 220: Introduction to Sociological Methods
• SOC 360: Introduction to Social Stratification
• SOC 504: Applied Social Statistics
• SOC 588: Special Topics in Stratification and Race Relations

Contact Information:

Barbara Reskin
Email: reskin@u.washington.edu
Homepage http://www.soc.washington.edu/people/faculty_detail.asp?UID=Reskin
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