Faculty Affiliate Barbara Reskin, Professor Emeritus 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. "Affirmative Action in School and on the Job", Annual Review of Sociology (2005) , 31.
• Reskin, B. "Unconsciousness Raising: Women's Underrepresentation in Top-Level Jobs" Regional Review (2005), 14: 3, 32-37.
• Reskin, B.; Bielby, D. "A Sociological Perspective on Gender and Career Outcomes". Journal of Economic Perspectives (2005), 19: Winter, 71-86.
• Reskin, Barbara.  "Including Mechanisms in Our Models of Ascriptive Inequality", American Sociological Review (2003), 68(1):1-21.
• Padavic, Irene and Barbara F. Reskin. "Women and Men at Work" (2nd ed.) Pine Forge Press (2002).

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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