Anastasia H Prokos
Biographic Data
| ID | 289494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anastasia H Prokos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anastasia H |
| FAMILY NAME | Prokos |
| SIGNATURE | PROKOS A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 179 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Gender Segregation in Work
Gender segregation in work (sometimes discussed as sex segregation in work) has been studied from a variety of foci. Foci include micro, meso, and macro levels. All of these levels have different components that perpetuate gender segregation in work. Many influential works expanded during the second‐wave feminist movement to provide researchers the foundation for understanding gender segregation in work currently and for the future.
Aiming High: Explaining the Earnings Advantage for Female Veterans
This study investigates how veteran status influences earnings for working-age American women. Recent increases in women's participation in the U.S. military mean that the proportion of female veterans is rising and is forecast to increase over the next 30 years. Yet we still know relatively little about the relationship between women's military experience and later labor-market outcomes. Drawing on American Community Survey data from 2008 to 201…
Women Military Veterans, Disability, and Employment
This study contributes to the growing body of literature about women veterans of the U.S. military by investigating how veteran status and disability are related to women's ability to work. The study uses nationally representative data to analyze labor market outcomes of women who served in the U.S. military since 1973, with a focus on findings about women who have served since 2001. Results indicate women who served after 2001 are more likely to…
The Interview: From Formal to Postmodern
Used by everyone from survey researchers to oral historians, the interview may be the most basic and essential field method in the qualitative researcher’s toolkit. In this concise, student-friendly guide, Fontana and Prokos give a cogent introduction to the history, types, and methods of interviewing in the social sciences. They outline the range of ways in which interviews are conducted, both structured and unstructured, then provide instructio…
Community Support of Ethanol Plants: Does Local Ownership Matter
Drawing on data from six communities in Kansas and Iowa, we explore the factors that are related to community members' current levels of overall support for local ethanol plants. What are residents' opinions about the benefits and drawbacks of local ownership of ethanol plants? How does that awareness lead to overall support of plants? Our interest is to understand how perceptions of the negative effects of the plant on the local infrastructure a…
Grandfather Caregivers: Race and Ethnic Differences in Poverty
We use data from the 2006 American Community Survey to examine race and ethnic differences in the effects of marital status and co-residence of the middle generation on the likelihood of poverty among grandfathers who have primary responsibility for co-resident grandchildren (N = 3,379). Logistic regression results indicate that race/ethnicity and household composition are significant predictors of poverty for grandfather caregivers: non-Hispanic…
An Unfinished Revolution: England Symposium Introduction
After many decades of feminist activism, the is incomplete. Feminist gains have spawned an ongoing backlash (Douglas 2010; Faludi 1991/2006), and as England (2010) notes, the pace of change for women has slowed in many spheres. Given the tension between the feminist movement and the anti-feminists who have galvanized against it, it is unsurprising that the movement's gains have been unevenly paced, showing swift progress in some areas and slower …
Attitudes about Affirmative Action for Women: The Role of Children in Shaping Parents’ Interests
Gendered Disparities in Take-ups of Employee Health Benefits
Using a sample of 2,271 workers from the 2002 National Study of the Changing Workforce whose employers offered personal health insurance, this article investigates the gendered nature of health insurance benefit take-ups. These analyses include family and employment characteristics in addition to employers' contributions to health insurance premiums, a measure that is unexamined in sociological analyses of health benefits. Progressive logistic re…
Poverty Among Cohabiting Gay and Lesbian, and Married and Cohabiting Heterosexual Families
Using a subsample ( N = 1,365,145) of the 2000 Census 5% Public Use Microdata Sample, the authors investigate explanations for differing poverty chances of cohabiting gay and lesbian, and married and cohabiting heterosexual families. Gay and lesbian couples fare worse than married couples, but better economically than cohabiting heterosexuals. Lesbian and gay families are older and more educated than cohabiting heterosexual families, and these di…
Nonstandard Work Arrangements among Women and Men Scientists and Engineers
Widowhood and the end of spousal care-giving: Relief or wear and tear
This paper analyses the impact of spousal care-giving on survivors' depressive symptoms six months into widowhood, and examines the applicability of a ‘relief model’ of spousal adjustment during bereavement. We examine several aspects of the care-giving situation, including care-giver stress, care-giving demands, and type and duration of care and how these affect survivors' depressive symptomatology. The sample is drawn from two waves of the Chan…
Comparing Offers and Take-ups of Employee Health Insurance across Race, Gender, and Decade
How often do U.S. employees receive health insurance offers from employers? When offered, how often do they take up their employer-based health insurance? This article uses the 1992 and 2002 waves of the National Study of the Changing Workforce (NSCW) to investigate changes in access to (offers) and employees electing to accept, take, or purchase their employers' health insurance plans (take-ups) among wage and salaried workers. Although much res…
The Sandwiched Generation: Multiple Caregiving Responsibilities and the Mismatch Between Actual and Preferred Work Hours
We examine the intersection of the “Overworked American” and the “Sandwiched Generation.” Recent studies indicate that many U.S. workers would prefer to work shorter hours. For workers who are sandwiched between childcare and eldercare or who expect to be in the future, questions remain about work hour preferences. We use a representative sample and distinguish between currently sandwiched workers and those who expect to be in five years. The pro…
Response to Lois Helmbold, ?Women's Studies in Sin City: Reactionary Politics and Feminist Possibilities
In the last issue of the NWSA Journal (Summer 2005), Lois Helmbold offered an account of her experiences as chair of the Studies Department at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) in, Women's Studies in Sin City: Reactionary Politics and Feminist Possibilities. Three years as the head of the department have given Helmbold a point of view that is different from our own as members of the wider Studies community at UNLV. We have a close communi…
The Long‐Term Effects of Spousal Care Giving on Survivors' Well‐Being in Widowhood
Objective. Previous research suggests that bereavement and adjustment to widowhood are long term and should be studied as processes rather than as static outcomes. We analyze how spousal care giving affects survivors' depressive symptoms 18 and 48 months into widowhood. Method. We use three waves of data from the Changing Lives of Older Couples (CLOC) Survey and estimate OLS regression equations to determine the long‐term effects of spousal care …
An Examination of Competing Explanations for the Pay Gap among Scientists and Engineers
This article uses a nationally representative data set to determine the role of glass ceiling barriers and cohort effects on the earnings differences between women and men in an elite and growing group of professionals: Scientists and engineers. It draws on national data gathered in four surveys during the 1990s for cohorts graduating between 1955and1990.Results indicate a continuing pay gap net of human capital, family status, and occupational c…
There Oughtta Be a Law Against Bitches: Masculinity Lessons in Police Academy Training
This article draws on participant observation in a law enforcement academy to demonstrate how a hidden curriculum encourages aspects of hegemonic masculinity among recruits. Academy training teaches female and male recruits that masculinity is an essential requirement for the practice of policing and that women do not belong. By watching and learning from instructors and each other, male students developed a form of masculinity that (1) excluded …
There Oughtta Be a Law Against Bitches: Masculinity Lessons in Police Academy Training
This article draws on participant observation in a law enforcement academy to demonstrate how a hidden curriculum encourages aspects of hegemonic masculinity among recruits. Academy training teaches female and male recruits that masculinity is an essential requirement for the practice of policing and that women do not belong. By watching and learning from instructors and each other, male students developed a form of masculinity that (1) excluded …
An Examination of Competing Explanations for the Pay Gap among Scientists and Engineers
This article uses a nationally representative data set to determine the role of glass ceiling barriers and cohort effects on the earnings differences between women and men in an elite and growing group of professionals: Scientists and engineers. It draws on national data gathered in four surveys during the 1990s for cohorts graduating between 1955and1990.Results indicate a continuing pay gap net of human capital, family status, and occupational c…
Widowhood and the end of spousal care-giving: Relief or wear and tear
This paper analyses the impact of spousal care-giving on survivors' depressive symptoms six months into widowhood, and examines the applicability of a ‘relief model’ of spousal adjustment during bereavement. We examine several aspects of the care-giving situation, including care-giver stress, care-giving demands, and type and duration of care and how these affect survivors' depressive symptomatology. The sample is drawn from two waves of the Chan…
Comparing Offers and Take-ups of Employee Health Insurance across Race, Gender, and Decade
How often do U.S. employees receive health insurance offers from employers? When offered, how often do they take up their employer-based health insurance? This article uses the 1992 and 2002 waves of the National Study of the Changing Workforce (NSCW) to investigate changes in access to (offers) and employees electing to accept, take, or purchase their employers' health insurance plans (take-ups) among wage and salaried workers. Although much res…
Attitudes about Affirmative Action for Women: The Role of Children in Shaping Parents’ Interests
Poverty Among Cohabiting Gay and Lesbian, and Married and Cohabiting Heterosexual Families
Using a subsample ( N = 1,365,145) of the 2000 Census 5% Public Use Microdata Sample, the authors investigate explanations for differing poverty chances of cohabiting gay and lesbian, and married and cohabiting heterosexual families. Gay and lesbian couples fare worse than married couples, but better economically than cohabiting heterosexuals. Lesbian and gay families are older and more educated than cohabiting heterosexual families, and these di…
Community Support of Ethanol Plants: Does Local Ownership Matter
Drawing on data from six communities in Kansas and Iowa, we explore the factors that are related to community members' current levels of overall support for local ethanol plants. What are residents' opinions about the benefits and drawbacks of local ownership of ethanol plants? How does that awareness lead to overall support of plants? Our interest is to understand how perceptions of the negative effects of the plant on the local infrastructure a…
Nonstandard Work Arrangements among Women and Men Scientists and Engineers
Aiming High: Explaining the Earnings Advantage for Female Veterans
This study investigates how veteran status influences earnings for working-age American women. Recent increases in women's participation in the U.S. military mean that the proportion of female veterans is rising and is forecast to increase over the next 30 years. Yet we still know relatively little about the relationship between women's military experience and later labor-market outcomes. Drawing on American Community Survey data from 2008 to 201…
Women Military Veterans, Disability, and Employment
This study contributes to the growing body of literature about women veterans of the U.S. military by investigating how veteran status and disability are related to women's ability to work. The study uses nationally representative data to analyze labor market outcomes of women who served in the U.S. military since 1973, with a focus on findings about women who have served since 2001. Results indicate women who served after 2001 are more likely to…
Grandfather Caregivers: Race and Ethnic Differences in Poverty
We use data from the 2006 American Community Survey to examine race and ethnic differences in the effects of marital status and co-residence of the middle generation on the likelihood of poverty among grandfathers who have primary responsibility for co-resident grandchildren (N = 3,379). Logistic regression results indicate that race/ethnicity and household composition are significant predictors of poverty for grandfather caregivers: non-Hispanic…
The Long‐Term Effects of Spousal Care Giving on Survivors' Well‐Being in Widowhood
Objective. Previous research suggests that bereavement and adjustment to widowhood are long term and should be studied as processes rather than as static outcomes. We analyze how spousal care giving affects survivors' depressive symptoms 18 and 48 months into widowhood. Method. We use three waves of data from the Changing Lives of Older Couples (CLOC) Survey and estimate OLS regression equations to determine the long‐term effects of spousal care …
An Unfinished Revolution: England Symposium Introduction
After many decades of feminist activism, the is incomplete. Feminist gains have spawned an ongoing backlash (Douglas 2010; Faludi 1991/2006), and as England (2010) notes, the pace of change for women has slowed in many spheres. Given the tension between the feminist movement and the anti-feminists who have galvanized against it, it is unsurprising that the movement's gains have been unevenly paced, showing swift progress in some areas and slower …
The Sandwiched Generation: Multiple Caregiving Responsibilities and the Mismatch Between Actual and Preferred Work Hours
We examine the intersection of the “Overworked American” and the “Sandwiched Generation.” Recent studies indicate that many U.S. workers would prefer to work shorter hours. For workers who are sandwiched between childcare and eldercare or who expect to be in the future, questions remain about work hour preferences. We use a representative sample and distinguish between currently sandwiched workers and those who expect to be in five years. The pro…
There Oughtta Be a Law Against Bitches: Masculinity Lessons in Police Academy Training
This article draws on participant observation in a law enforcement academy to demonstrate how a hidden curriculum encourages aspects of hegemonic masculinity among recruits. Academy training teaches female and male recruits that masculinity is an essential requirement for the practice of policing and that women do not belong. By watching and learning from instructors and each other, male students developed a form of masculinity that (1) excluded …
Response to Lois Helmbold, ?Women's Studies in Sin City: Reactionary Politics and Feminist Possibilities
In the last issue of the NWSA Journal (Summer 2005), Lois Helmbold offered an account of her experiences as chair of the Studies Department at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) in, Women's Studies in Sin City: Reactionary Politics and Feminist Possibilities. Three years as the head of the department have given Helmbold a point of view that is different from our own as members of the wider Studies community at UNLV. We have a close communi…
The Long‐Term Effects of Spousal Care Giving on Survivors' Well‐Being in Widowhood
Objective. Previous research suggests that bereavement and adjustment to widowhood are long term and should be studied as processes rather than as static outcomes. We analyze how spousal care giving affects survivors' depressive symptoms 18 and 48 months into widowhood. Method. We use three waves of data from the Changing Lives of Older Couples (CLOC) Survey and estimate OLS regression equations to determine the long‐term effects of spousal care …
An Examination of Competing Explanations for the Pay Gap among Scientists and Engineers
This article uses a nationally representative data set to determine the role of glass ceiling barriers and cohort effects on the earnings differences between women and men in an elite and growing group of professionals: Scientists and engineers. It draws on national data gathered in four surveys during the 1990s for cohorts graduating between 1955and1990.Results indicate a continuing pay gap net of human capital, family status, and occupational c…
Comparing Offers and Take-ups of Employee Health Insurance across Race, Gender, and Decade
How often do U.S. employees receive health insurance offers from employers? When offered, how often do they take up their employer-based health insurance? This article uses the 1992 and 2002 waves of the National Study of the Changing Workforce (NSCW) to investigate changes in access to (offers) and employees electing to accept, take, or purchase their employers' health insurance plans (take-ups) among wage and salaried workers. Although much res…
The Sandwiched Generation: Multiple Caregiving Responsibilities and the Mismatch Between Actual and Preferred Work Hours
We examine the intersection of the “Overworked American” and the “Sandwiched Generation.” Recent studies indicate that many U.S. workers would prefer to work shorter hours. For workers who are sandwiched between childcare and eldercare or who expect to be in the future, questions remain about work hour preferences. We use a representative sample and distinguish between currently sandwiched workers and those who expect to be in five years. The pro…
Widowhood and the end of spousal care-giving: Relief or wear and tear
This paper analyses the impact of spousal care-giving on survivors' depressive symptoms six months into widowhood, and examines the applicability of a ‘relief model’ of spousal adjustment during bereavement. We examine several aspects of the care-giving situation, including care-giver stress, care-giving demands, and type and duration of care and how these affect survivors' depressive symptomatology. The sample is drawn from two waves of the Chan…
Nonstandard Work Arrangements among Women and Men Scientists and Engineers
Attitudes about Affirmative Action for Women: The Role of Children in Shaping Parents’ Interests
Gendered Disparities in Take-ups of Employee Health Benefits
Using a sample of 2,271 workers from the 2002 National Study of the Changing Workforce whose employers offered personal health insurance, this article investigates the gendered nature of health insurance benefit take-ups. These analyses include family and employment characteristics in addition to employers' contributions to health insurance premiums, a measure that is unexamined in sociological analyses of health benefits. Progressive logistic re…
Poverty Among Cohabiting Gay and Lesbian, and Married and Cohabiting Heterosexual Families
Using a subsample ( N = 1,365,145) of the 2000 Census 5% Public Use Microdata Sample, the authors investigate explanations for differing poverty chances of cohabiting gay and lesbian, and married and cohabiting heterosexual families. Gay and lesbian couples fare worse than married couples, but better economically than cohabiting heterosexuals. Lesbian and gay families are older and more educated than cohabiting heterosexual families, and these di…
An Unfinished Revolution: England Symposium Introduction
After many decades of feminist activism, the is incomplete. Feminist gains have spawned an ongoing backlash (Douglas 2010; Faludi 1991/2006), and as England (2010) notes, the pace of change for women has slowed in many spheres. Given the tension between the feminist movement and the anti-feminists who have galvanized against it, it is unsurprising that the movement's gains have been unevenly paced, showing swift progress in some areas and slower …
Community Support of Ethanol Plants: Does Local Ownership Matter
Drawing on data from six communities in Kansas and Iowa, we explore the factors that are related to community members' current levels of overall support for local ethanol plants. What are residents' opinions about the benefits and drawbacks of local ownership of ethanol plants? How does that awareness lead to overall support of plants? Our interest is to understand how perceptions of the negative effects of the plant on the local infrastructure a…
Grandfather Caregivers: Race and Ethnic Differences in Poverty
We use data from the 2006 American Community Survey to examine race and ethnic differences in the effects of marital status and co-residence of the middle generation on the likelihood of poverty among grandfathers who have primary responsibility for co-resident grandchildren (N = 3,379). Logistic regression results indicate that race/ethnicity and household composition are significant predictors of poverty for grandfather caregivers: non-Hispanic…
The Interview: From Formal to Postmodern
Used by everyone from survey researchers to oral historians, the interview may be the most basic and essential field method in the qualitative researcher’s toolkit. In this concise, student-friendly guide, Fontana and Prokos give a cogent introduction to the history, types, and methods of interviewing in the social sciences. They outline the range of ways in which interviews are conducted, both structured and unstructured, then provide instructio…
Gender Segregation in Work
Gender segregation in work (sometimes discussed as sex segregation in work) has been studied from a variety of foci. Foci include micro, meso, and macro levels. All of these levels have different components that perpetuate gender segregation in work. Many influential works expanded during the second‐wave feminist movement to provide researchers the foundation for understanding gender segregation in work currently and for the future.
Aiming High: Explaining the Earnings Advantage for Female Veterans
This study investigates how veteran status influences earnings for working-age American women. Recent increases in women's participation in the U.S. military mean that the proportion of female veterans is rising and is forecast to increase over the next 30 years. Yet we still know relatively little about the relationship between women's military experience and later labor-market outcomes. Drawing on American Community Survey data from 2008 to 201…
Women Military Veterans, Disability, and Employment
This study contributes to the growing body of literature about women veterans of the U.S. military by investigating how veteran status and disability are related to women's ability to work. The study uses nationally representative data to analyze labor market outcomes of women who served in the U.S. military since 1973, with a focus on findings about women who have served since 2001. Results indicate women who served after 2001 are more likely to…
Psychology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Demographic economics (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works)