Areas of Research

Family and Work Dynamics of High-Income Couples

 

Jill E. Yavorsky, Lisa A. Keister, Yue Qian, and Sarah Thebaud. 2023. “Separate Spheres: The Gender Division of Labor in the Financial Elite.” Social Forces

Keister, Lisa A,* Sarah Thebaud,* and Jill E. Yavorsky.* (*Equal coauthorship) 2022. “Gender In the Elite.” Annual Review of Sociology

Yavorsky, Jill E., Lisa A. Keister, and Yue Qian. 2020. “Gender in the One Percent.” Contexts, 19 (1), 12–17.

Yavorsky, Jill E., Lisa A. Keister, Yue Qian, and Michael Nau. 2019. “Women in the One Percent: Gender Dynamics in Top Income Positions.” American Sociological Review, 84 (1), 54–81.

Keister, Lisa A, Hang Young Lee, and Jill E. Yavorsky. “Gender and Wealth in the Super Rich: Asset Differences in Top Wealth Households in the United States, 1989-2019.” (Under review; draft available)

Workplace Outcomes and Interactions

 

Yavorsky, Jill E., Yue Qian, and Rebecca Glauber. 2023. “Workplace Productivity. Gender, Parenthood, and Career Consequences. Working Paper.

Roscigno, Vincent, Jill E. Yavorsky, and Natasha Quadlin. 2021. “Gendered Dignity at Work: How Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Matter.” American Journal of Sociology.

Qian, Yue* and Jill E. Yavorsky.* (*Equal Authorship) 2021. “The Under-utilization of Women’s Talent: Academic Achievement and Future Leadership Positions? ” Social Forces.

Sargent, Amanda,* Jill E. Yavorsky, and Rosalyn Sandoval*. 2021 “Coworking Spaces, Gender, and Alternative Organizational Logics.” Gender & Society. (*indicates coauthorship with a graduate student)

Roscigno, Vincent J. and Jill E. Yavorsky. 2015. “Discrimination, Diversity and Work.” In Routledge International Handbook of Diversity Studies, edited by Steven Vertovec. Routledge Publishers.

Occupational Segregation

 

Yavorsky, Jill E., Enrica Ruggs, and Janette Dill. 2021 “Gendered Skills and Unemployed Men’s Resistance to ‘Women’s Work’” Gender, Work, and Organization.

Yavorsky, Jill E., and Janette Dill. 2020. “Unemployment and men's entrance into female-dominated jobs.” Social Science Research, 85: 102373.

Yavorsky, Jill E. 2019. “Uneven Patterns of Inequality: An Audit Analysis of Hiring-related Practices by Gendered and Classed Contexts.” Social Forces. 1-32. 

Yavorsky, Jill E., Philip N. Cohen, and Yue Qian. 2016. “Man Up, Man Down: Race- ethnicity and the Gendered Hierarchy of Men in Female-dominated Work.” The Sociological Quarterly, 57 (4): 733-758.

Division of Labor and Family

 

Yavorsky, Jill E.*, Qian, Yue*, and Amanda Sargent. (*equal first authorship) 2021. “The Gendered Pandemic: The Implications of COVID-19 on Family and Work. Sociology Compass.

Negraia, Daniela, Jill E. Yavorsky, and Denys Dukhovnov. 2020. “Mothers’ and Fathers’ Wellbeing While Parenting: Does the Gender Composition of Children Matter?” Journal of Marriage and Family

Kamp Dush, Claire M., Jill E. Yavorsky, and Sarah J. Schoppe-Sullivan. 2018. “What Are Men Doing while Women Perform Extra Unpaid Labor? Leisure and Specialization at the Transitions to Parenthood.” Sex Roles 78, 715–730.

Schoppe-Sullivan, Sarah J., Jill E. Yavorsky, Mitchell Bartholomew, Jason M. Sullivan, Meghan A. Lee, Claire M. Kamp Dush, and Michael Glassman. 2017. “Doing Gender Online: New Mothers’ Psychological Characteristics, Facebook Use, and Depressive Symptoms.” Sex Roles 76 (5): 276-289.

Yavorsky, Jill E., Claire M. Kamp Dush, and Sarah J. Schoppe‐Sullivan. 2015. “The production of inequality: The gender division of labor across the transition to parenthood.” Journal of Marriage and Family, 77 (3), 662-679.

Gender Identity & Outcomes

 

Yavorsky, Jill E, and Claudia Buchmann. 2019. “Gender Typicality and Academic Achievement Among American High School Students.” Sociological Science, 6 (25): 661-683. 

Yavorsky, Jill E. 2016. “Cisgendered organizations: Trans women and inequality in the workplace.” Sociological Forum 31 (4): 948-969.

Yavorsky, Jill E., and Liana Sayer. 2013. “Doing Fear: The Influence of Hetero-femininity on (Trans)Women's Fears of Victimization.” The Sociological Quarterly, 54 (4): 511-533.