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I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology. The primary goal of my research is to identify labor market processes that reproduce gender inequality. Although seemingly gender-neutral, some workplace norms and practices have disparate impacts on women by applying gendered assumptions that systematically exclude and disadvantage women in the labor market. My research theoretically and empirically examines these assumptions hidden in workplace norms and practices, and shows how they contribute to reproducing gender inequality in the labor market and in the family.
My dissertation examines the effect of long work hours ("overwork") on gender inequality by examining how it shapes men and women's labor market outcomes. Overwork is increasingly common as an established norm in the workplace, especially in high-skilled jobs. I argue that the overwork is a gendered norm that systematically disadvantages women, who are less likely to work longer hours because of the normative expectation that they will have more caregiving responsibilities than men. Using a longitudinal dataset collected from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), I conduct three empirical analyses that employ advanced quantitative methods to assess the effect of overwork on three important labor market measures of inequality. Specifically, I investigate (1) whether spousal overwork increases the likelihood of men's and women's quitting differently, (2) how overwork affects men's and women's occupational mobility and reinforces occupational sex segregation, and (3) how overwork contributes to the gender gap in earnings.
Cha, Youngjoo. Forthcoming (2010). "Reinforcing 'Separate Spheres': The Effect of Spousal Overwork on the Employment of Men and Women in Dual-Earner Households." American Sociological Review. Cha, Youngjoo and Sarah E. Thebaud (equal authorship). 2009. "Labor Markets, Breadwinning, and Beliefs: How Economic Context Shapes Men's Gender Ideology." Gender & Society 23 (2): 215-243. Hirsh, C. Elizabeth and Youngjoo Cha. 2008. "Understanding Employment Discrimination: A Multilevel Approach." Sociology Compass 2(6): 1989-2007. Morgan, Stephen L. and Youngjoo Cha. 2007. "Rent and the Evolution of Inequality in Late Industrial United States" American Behavioral Scientist 50(5): 677-701.
Cha, Youngjoo and Stephen L. Morgan. "Structural Earnings Losses and Between-Industry Mobility of Displaced Workers, 2003-2008." Under Review. Cha, Youngjoo. "The Effect of Job Switching on the Gender Wage Gap." Cha, Youngjoo. "Overwork and the Persistence of Occupational Sex Segregation: The Effect of Long Work Hours on Occupational Mobility of Men and Women." Hirsh, C. Elizabeth and Youngjoo Cha. "Discrimination Litigation, Financial Performance, and Workplace Equality."
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2008-2009. Departmental Citation for Excellence in Teaching for Sociology 506 Research Method II, Cornell University, Department of Sociology, 2007 Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center - Center for the Study of Inequality Seed Grants, 2006-2007. Robin Williams Jr. Best Graduate Student Paper Award for "The Effect of Job Switching Effect on the Gender Earnings Gap" Cornell University, Department of Sociology, 2005 Russell Sage Fellowship, Cornell University, 2003-2004 Center for the Study of Economy and Society Seed Grant, Cornell University, 2003.
The Washington Post, August 5, 2008: Page D02.
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