Kimberlee A Shauman
Biographic Data
| ID | 239633 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kimberlee A Shauman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kimberlee A |
| FAMILY NAME | Shauman |
| SIGNATURE | SHAUMAN K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7685-0349 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 349 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Misconceiving Merit: Paradoxes of Excellence and Devotion in Academic Science and Engineering
Gender, race-ethnicity and postdoctoral hiring in STEMM fields
The Toll of Inequality: Excess African American Deaths in the United States Over the Twentieth Century
To take stock of the human toll resulting from racial inequality in the United States, we estimate the number of excess deaths that accumulated among African Americans over the twentieth century as a result of the enduring racial gap in mortality rates. We assemble a wide array of demographic and vital statistics data for all years since 1900 to calculate the number of Black deaths in each half-decade that occurred in excess of what would be proj…
Gender Differences in the Early Employment Outcomes of STEM Doctorates
The representation of women among STEM doctorates has grown over the past decades but the underrepresentation of women in the STEM labor force persists. This paper examines the immediate post-degree employment outcomes of nine cohorts of STEM doctorates who attained their degrees between 1995 and 2013. The results reveal both progress toward gender equity and persistent inequities. Contrary to historical gender disparities, a small female advanta…
Gender Differences in the Early Career Outcomes of College Graduates: The Influence of Sex-Type of Degree Field Across Four Cohorts
Kimberlee A. Shauman, Gender Differences in the Early Career Outcomes of College Graduates: The Influence of Sex-Type of Degree Field Across Four Cohorts, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 4, A Half Century of Change in the Lives of American Women (August 2016), pp. 152-193
STEM Education
Improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, especially for traditionally disadvantaged groups, is widely recognized as pivotal to the United States's long-term economic growth and security. In this article, we review and discuss current research on STEM education in the United States, drawing on recent research in sociology and related fields. The reviewed literature shows that different social factors affect the…
Discrimination: Institutional, Statistical, and Direct
Human Capital
Trends and correlates of post-retirement employment, 1977–2009
The stereotypical retirement experience – the abrupt ceasing of all paid work and commencement of a life of leisure – is the experience of only half of all workers. Yet, despite the prevalence of combining work and retirement in the US and the implications this work-retirement behavior may have for organizations and individual workers, post-retirement employment behavior is understudied. In this article, we add to the growing literature on retire…
Gender Stratification in the IT Industry: Sex, Status and Social Capital
Gender Asymmetry in Family Migration: Occupational Inequality or Interspousal Comparative Advantage
This paper examines gender inequality in the determinants of job-related long-distance migration among married dual-earner couples during the 1980s and 1990s. The analysis tested the structural explanation, which attributes gender asymmetry in family migration to structural inequality in the labor market, and the comparative advantage explanation derived from relative resource theory. The analysis used individual- and family-level data from 5,504…
Are there sex differences in the utilization of educational capital among college-educated workers
Family Migration and Labor Force Outcomes: Sex Differences in Occupational Context
Empirical analyses of sex differences in the career consequences of family migration have focused on adjudicating between the human capital and the gender-role explanations but have ignored the potential influence of gender inequality in the structure of the labor market. In this paper we estimate conditional difference-in-difference models with individual-, family- and occupation-level data to test a structural explanation that attributes sex di…
Occupational sex segregation and the earnings of occupations: What causes the link among college-educated workers
Sex Differences in Research Productivity: New Evidence about an Old Puzzle
Numerous studies have found that female scientists publish at lower rates than male scientists. So far explanations for this consistent pattern have failed to emerge, and sex differences in research productivity remain a puzzle. We report new empirical evidence based on a systematic and detailed analysis of data from four large, nationally representative, cross-sectional surveys of postsecondary faculty in 1969, 1973, 1988, and 1993. Our research…
Modeling the Sex-Typing of Occupational Choice: Influences of Occupational Structure
In this article, the authors propose to model the influence of occupational structure on the sex-typing of occupational choice within a log-linear model framework. A key feature of the framework is that the explanatory variables vary as a function both of individual attributes and of choice attributes. The authors show how information about the structure of the labor force and the experiences of its male and female incumbents affect the occupatio…
Geographic mobility of scientists: Sex differences and family constraints
Women scientists are much more likely than men scientists to be in two-career marriages. This study examines the argument that the higher prevalence of two-career marriages among women scientists presents a significant impediment to their geographic mobility. Three hypotheses are developed and tested. First. scientists in two-career families are less likely to migrate than scientists in one-career families. Second, the effect of two-career marria…
Sex Differences in Research Productivity: New Evidence about an Old Puzzle
Numerous studies have found that female scientists publish at lower rates than male scientists. So far explanations for this consistent pattern have failed to emerge, and sex differences in research productivity remain a puzzle. We report new empirical evidence based on a systematic and detailed analysis of data from four large, nationally representative, cross-sectional surveys of postsecondary faculty in 1969, 1973, 1988, and 1993. Our research…
STEM Education
Improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, especially for traditionally disadvantaged groups, is widely recognized as pivotal to the United States's long-term economic growth and security. In this article, we review and discuss current research on STEM education in the United States, drawing on recent research in sociology and related fields. The reviewed literature shows that different social factors affect the…
Family Migration and Labor Force Outcomes: Sex Differences in Occupational Context
Empirical analyses of sex differences in the career consequences of family migration have focused on adjudicating between the human capital and the gender-role explanations but have ignored the potential influence of gender inequality in the structure of the labor market. In this paper we estimate conditional difference-in-difference models with individual-, family- and occupation-level data to test a structural explanation that attributes sex di…
Occupational sex segregation and the earnings of occupations: What causes the link among college-educated workers
Gender Asymmetry in Family Migration: Occupational Inequality or Interspousal Comparative Advantage
This paper examines gender inequality in the determinants of job-related long-distance migration among married dual-earner couples during the 1980s and 1990s. The analysis tested the structural explanation, which attributes gender asymmetry in family migration to structural inequality in the labor market, and the comparative advantage explanation derived from relative resource theory. The analysis used individual- and family-level data from 5,504…
Geographic mobility of scientists: Sex differences and family constraints
Women scientists are much more likely than men scientists to be in two-career marriages. This study examines the argument that the higher prevalence of two-career marriages among women scientists presents a significant impediment to their geographic mobility. Three hypotheses are developed and tested. First. scientists in two-career families are less likely to migrate than scientists in one-career families. Second, the effect of two-career marria…
Trends and correlates of post-retirement employment, 1977–2009
The stereotypical retirement experience – the abrupt ceasing of all paid work and commencement of a life of leisure – is the experience of only half of all workers. Yet, despite the prevalence of combining work and retirement in the US and the implications this work-retirement behavior may have for organizations and individual workers, post-retirement employment behavior is understudied. In this article, we add to the growing literature on retire…
Are there sex differences in the utilization of educational capital among college-educated workers
Modeling the Sex-Typing of Occupational Choice: Influences of Occupational Structure
In this article, the authors propose to model the influence of occupational structure on the sex-typing of occupational choice within a log-linear model framework. A key feature of the framework is that the explanatory variables vary as a function both of individual attributes and of choice attributes. The authors show how information about the structure of the labor force and the experiences of its male and female incumbents affect the occupatio…
The Toll of Inequality: Excess African American Deaths in the United States Over the Twentieth Century
To take stock of the human toll resulting from racial inequality in the United States, we estimate the number of excess deaths that accumulated among African Americans over the twentieth century as a result of the enduring racial gap in mortality rates. We assemble a wide array of demographic and vital statistics data for all years since 1900 to calculate the number of Black deaths in each half-decade that occurred in excess of what would be proj…
Gender Differences in the Early Employment Outcomes of STEM Doctorates
The representation of women among STEM doctorates has grown over the past decades but the underrepresentation of women in the STEM labor force persists. This paper examines the immediate post-degree employment outcomes of nine cohorts of STEM doctorates who attained their degrees between 1995 and 2013. The results reveal both progress toward gender equity and persistent inequities. Contrary to historical gender disparities, a small female advanta…
Gender Differences in the Early Career Outcomes of College Graduates: The Influence of Sex-Type of Degree Field Across Four Cohorts
Kimberlee A. Shauman, Gender Differences in the Early Career Outcomes of College Graduates: The Influence of Sex-Type of Degree Field Across Four Cohorts, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 4, A Half Century of Change in the Lives of American Women (August 2016), pp. 152-193
Gender, race-ethnicity and postdoctoral hiring in STEMM fields
Geographic mobility of scientists: Sex differences and family constraints
Women scientists are much more likely than men scientists to be in two-career marriages. This study examines the argument that the higher prevalence of two-career marriages among women scientists presents a significant impediment to their geographic mobility. Three hypotheses are developed and tested. First. scientists in two-career families are less likely to migrate than scientists in one-career families. Second, the effect of two-career marria…
Modeling the Sex-Typing of Occupational Choice: Influences of Occupational Structure
In this article, the authors propose to model the influence of occupational structure on the sex-typing of occupational choice within a log-linear model framework. A key feature of the framework is that the explanatory variables vary as a function both of individual attributes and of choice attributes. The authors show how information about the structure of the labor force and the experiences of its male and female incumbents affect the occupatio…
Sex Differences in Research Productivity: New Evidence about an Old Puzzle
Numerous studies have found that female scientists publish at lower rates than male scientists. So far explanations for this consistent pattern have failed to emerge, and sex differences in research productivity remain a puzzle. We report new empirical evidence based on a systematic and detailed analysis of data from four large, nationally representative, cross-sectional surveys of postsecondary faculty in 1969, 1973, 1988, and 1993. Our research…
Occupational sex segregation and the earnings of occupations: What causes the link among college-educated workers
Family Migration and Labor Force Outcomes: Sex Differences in Occupational Context
Empirical analyses of sex differences in the career consequences of family migration have focused on adjudicating between the human capital and the gender-role explanations but have ignored the potential influence of gender inequality in the structure of the labor market. In this paper we estimate conditional difference-in-difference models with individual-, family- and occupation-level data to test a structural explanation that attributes sex di…
Are there sex differences in the utilization of educational capital among college-educated workers
Gender Asymmetry in Family Migration: Occupational Inequality or Interspousal Comparative Advantage
This paper examines gender inequality in the determinants of job-related long-distance migration among married dual-earner couples during the 1980s and 1990s. The analysis tested the structural explanation, which attributes gender asymmetry in family migration to structural inequality in the labor market, and the comparative advantage explanation derived from relative resource theory. The analysis used individual- and family-level data from 5,504…
Gender Stratification in the IT Industry: Sex, Status and Social Capital
Discrimination: Institutional, Statistical, and Direct
Human Capital
Trends and correlates of post-retirement employment, 1977–2009
The stereotypical retirement experience – the abrupt ceasing of all paid work and commencement of a life of leisure – is the experience of only half of all workers. Yet, despite the prevalence of combining work and retirement in the US and the implications this work-retirement behavior may have for organizations and individual workers, post-retirement employment behavior is understudied. In this article, we add to the growing literature on retire…
STEM Education
Improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, especially for traditionally disadvantaged groups, is widely recognized as pivotal to the United States's long-term economic growth and security. In this article, we review and discuss current research on STEM education in the United States, drawing on recent research in sociology and related fields. The reviewed literature shows that different social factors affect the…
Gender Differences in the Early Career Outcomes of College Graduates: The Influence of Sex-Type of Degree Field Across Four Cohorts
Kimberlee A. Shauman, Gender Differences in the Early Career Outcomes of College Graduates: The Influence of Sex-Type of Degree Field Across Four Cohorts, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 4, A Half Century of Change in the Lives of American Women (August 2016), pp. 152-193
Gender Differences in the Early Employment Outcomes of STEM Doctorates
The representation of women among STEM doctorates has grown over the past decades but the underrepresentation of women in the STEM labor force persists. This paper examines the immediate post-degree employment outcomes of nine cohorts of STEM doctorates who attained their degrees between 1995 and 2013. The results reveal both progress toward gender equity and persistent inequities. Contrary to historical gender disparities, a small female advanta…
The Toll of Inequality: Excess African American Deaths in the United States Over the Twentieth Century
To take stock of the human toll resulting from racial inequality in the United States, we estimate the number of excess deaths that accumulated among African Americans over the twentieth century as a result of the enduring racial gap in mortality rates. We assemble a wide array of demographic and vital statistics data for all years since 1900 to calculate the number of Black deaths in each half-decade that occurred in excess of what would be proj…
Gender, race-ethnicity and postdoctoral hiring in STEMM fields
Misconceiving Merit: Paradoxes of Excellence and Devotion in Academic Science and Engineering
Sociology (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (5 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Demography (4 works) · Demography (3 works)