Joan M Hermsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3633953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan M Hermsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan M |
| FAMILY NAME | Hermsen |
| SIGNATURE | HERMSEN J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9505-3302 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 635 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Healthy Food and Nutrition Offerings at Midwestern Food Pantries: Assessing Organizational Culture, Capacity, and Practices
Food pantries differ in terms of their commitment to, capacity for, and practices in support of healthy eating options and nutrition programming for food pantry users. We assess these differences in a sample of 476 food pantries in the Midwestern United States. Using survey data collected in 2021 from food pantry directors, we find high support for offering healthy food options at pantries, although there are some pantry infrastructure and staff …
Undergraduate Vaccine Hesitancy and the Influence of “Home” Locales
There is a link between county-level health and geographic characteristics, and individuals'-who were influenced by those counties because that is where their parents live-hesitancy towards vaccines. Identifying feasible, precise, local solutions to reducing vaccine hesitancy could take place if community members and other stakeholders would be open to changes in local-level health policy or practice
Mitigating the Spread of Covid-19: Differential Perceptions of Midwestern University Students
Racially minoritized groups have disproportionately borne the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in America. We draw on Public Health Critical Race Praxis to investigate racial differences in college students' attitudes about mitigation efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19 and concerns about one's own and others' actions in these efforts. We used survey data from a random sample of Midwestern undergraduates (n = 620) who participated in a fall 2…
Toward a Better Understanding of Perceptions of Neighborhood Social Cohesion in Rural and Urban Places
Crime victimization distress, neighbourhood social cohesion and perceived police effectiveness
Despite important policy implications, there is scant research on the relationship between distress from victimization and perceptions of police effectiveness. This study investigates the relationship between extent of distress due to violent victimization and perceptions of local law enforcement. In addition, we examine the way that perceived neighbourhood social cohesion accounts for the relationship. We use data from a U.S. statewide victimiza…
Measuring place of residence across urban and rural spaces: An application to fears associated with outdoor recreation
Place of residence is one factor that may affect individual engagement and experiences in outdoor recreation. In this paper we assess four measures of place of residence and their associations with fears related to outdoor recreation. Data are from a statewide survey of Missouri households conducted in 2013 (n = 3,204). Logistic regression models are used to examine different measurements of place of residence and their relationship to the likeli…
The End of the Gender Revolution? Gender Role Attitudes from 1977 to 2008
After becoming consistently more egalitarian for more than two decades, gender role attitudes in the General Social Survey have changed little since the mid-1990s. This plateau mirrors other gender trends, suggesting a fundamental alteration in the momentum toward gender equality. While cohort replacement can explain about half of the increasing egalitarianism between 1974 and 1994, the changes since the mid-1990s are not well accounted for by co…
Is Gender Inequality Greater at Lower or Higher Educational Levels? Common Patterns in the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 16, Number 2, Summer 2009
How Does Gender Inequality in Employment and Earnings Vary by Educational Stratum in Sweden and the United States
In this article, we compare how gender inequality in labor force participation and earnings vary by educational level in Sweden and the United States, focusing on "prime age" individuals from twenty-five to fifty-four who have at least one child in their household. We also examine how educational differences in gender inequality vary across the life cycle. We show that in both nations more highly educated women are more likely to be employed than…
The Effects of Occupational Gender Segregation Across Race
The general relationship between occupational gender segregation and earnings inequality is well documented, although few studies have examined the relationship separately by race/ethnicity. This article investigates occupational gender segregation effects across whites, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians. In addition, we explore two ways in which segregation may affect earnings: (1) by lowering the earnings of workers in female-dominated o…
Gender Differences in Use of Alternative Full‐Time Work Arrangements by Married Workers
Many firms now offer alternative work arrangements to help full‐time employees resolve time conflicts between work and family. The 1997 Current Population Survey supplement on work schedules is used to investigate gender differences in personal, family, and work factors associated with flextime use among married full‐time workers. Data collected from a local firm are also used to explore gender differences in flextime and other alternative work a…
The Glass Ceiling Effect
The popular notion of glass ceiling effects implies that gender (or other) disadvantages are stronger at the top of the hierarchy than at lower levels and that these disadvantages become worse later in a persons career. We define four specific criteria that must be met to conclude that a glass ceiling exists. Using random effects models and data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we examine gender and race inequalities at the 25th, 50th, an…
Women's Work and Working Women: The Demand for Female Labor
The demand for female labor is a central explanatory component of macrostructural theories of gender stratification. This study analyzes how the structural demand for female labor affects gender differences in labor force participation. The authors develop a measure of the gendered demand for labor by indexing the degree to which the occupational structure is skewed toward usually male or female occupations. Using census data from 1910 through 19…
The Devaluation of Women's Work: A Comment on Tam
Systems of Gender, Race, and Class Inequality: Multilevel Analyses
Journal Article Systems of Gender, Race, and Class Inequality: Multilevel Analyses Get access David A. Cotter, David A. Cotter Union College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joan M. Hermsen, Joan M. Hermsen University of Missouri—Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Reeve Vanneman Reeve Vanneman University of Maryland Direct correspondence to Reeve Vanneman, Depa…
The Demand for Female Labor
A number of theorists identify the demand for female labor as a central determinant of gender inequality. The authors construct a measure of the demand for female labor and test its impact on labor market inequality, educational attainment, family structure, political representation, and gender role attitudes across 261 metropolitan areas. Areas with more traditional female occupational structures have less labor market and educational gender ine…
All Women Benefit: The Macro-Level Effect of Occupational Integration on Gender Earnings Equality
Macro-level processes transfer many of the income benefits of occupational integration to all women in the labor market, not just to those women who enter predominantly male (and therefore high-paying) occupations. The authors investigate these macro-level effects in a multi-level model comparing 261 metropolitan area labor markets. They find that occupational integration is strongly associated with gender earnings equality, even after extensive …
Same Data, Different Conclusions: Comment on Bernhardt Et Al
Working with the bereaved: U.S. army experiences with nontraditional families
This paper uses a postmodern family perspective to examine the interaction between Army Casualty Assistance Officers (CAOs) and the families of deceased soldiers. The data we examine are open-ended survey responses of CAOs (N = 188) who assisted bereaved families of soldiers killed in three unrelated air disasters. Five themes emerged from our analysis of the qualitative responses: postmodern family structures, contested definitions of "significa…
Gender Differences in the Determinants of Work-Related Overnight Travel among Employed Americans
This research documents the prevalence and extent of work-related overnight travel among employed men and women in the United States, revealing substantial differences by gender. Multivariate analyses show gender differences in the determinants of travel behavior with regard to job characteristics, gender ideology, and background characteristics. Interestingly, family characteristics are not important determinants for either women or men. Gender …
Gender Inequality in Nonmetropolitan and Metropolitan Areas1
Nonmetropolitan-metropolitan differences in the United States are large and growing, but we know relatively little about how they interact with gender differences. Using data from the CPS, the Census PUMS, and the GSS, we find nonmetropolitan and metropolitan areas are quite similar in the gender gap in earnings and in rates of married women's labor force participation. Occupational sex segregation is higher and some gender attitudes are a few pe…
Occupational Gender Desegregation in the 1980s
This article examines the change in occupational gender segregation in the 1980s using 1980 and 1990 Public Use Microdata Samples data. This research reveals a continuing decline in occupational gender segregation in the 1980s, but at a somewhat slower pace than in the 1970s. About three quarters of the overall desegregation was due to the changing gender composition of occupations, and about one quarter was due to the faster growth of more integ…
Occupational Gender Segregation and the Earnings Gap: Changes in the 1980s
The End of the Gender Revolution? Gender Role Attitudes from 1977 to 2008
After becoming consistently more egalitarian for more than two decades, gender role attitudes in the General Social Survey have changed little since the mid-1990s. This plateau mirrors other gender trends, suggesting a fundamental alteration in the momentum toward gender equality. While cohort replacement can explain about half of the increasing egalitarianism between 1974 and 1994, the changes since the mid-1990s are not well accounted for by co…
The Glass Ceiling Effect
The popular notion of glass ceiling effects implies that gender (or other) disadvantages are stronger at the top of the hierarchy than at lower levels and that these disadvantages become worse later in a persons career. We define four specific criteria that must be met to conclude that a glass ceiling exists. Using random effects models and data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we examine gender and race inequalities at the 25th, 50th, an…
Is Gender Inequality Greater at Lower or Higher Educational Levels? Common Patterns in the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 16, Number 2, Summer 2009
All Women Benefit: The Macro-Level Effect of Occupational Integration on Gender Earnings Equality
Macro-level processes transfer many of the income benefits of occupational integration to all women in the labor market, not just to those women who enter predominantly male (and therefore high-paying) occupations. The authors investigate these macro-level effects in a multi-level model comparing 261 metropolitan area labor markets. They find that occupational integration is strongly associated with gender earnings equality, even after extensive …
The Devaluation of Women's Work: A Comment on Tam
The Effects of Occupational Gender Segregation Across Race
The general relationship between occupational gender segregation and earnings inequality is well documented, although few studies have examined the relationship separately by race/ethnicity. This article investigates occupational gender segregation effects across whites, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians. In addition, we explore two ways in which segregation may affect earnings: (1) by lowering the earnings of workers in female-dominated o…
Women's Work and Working Women: The Demand for Female Labor
The demand for female labor is a central explanatory component of macrostructural theories of gender stratification. This study analyzes how the structural demand for female labor affects gender differences in labor force participation. The authors develop a measure of the gendered demand for labor by indexing the degree to which the occupational structure is skewed toward usually male or female occupations. Using census data from 1910 through 19…
Occupational Gender Desegregation in the 1980s
This article examines the change in occupational gender segregation in the 1980s using 1980 and 1990 Public Use Microdata Samples data. This research reveals a continuing decline in occupational gender segregation in the 1980s, but at a somewhat slower pace than in the 1970s. About three quarters of the overall desegregation was due to the changing gender composition of occupations, and about one quarter was due to the faster growth of more integ…
Systems of Gender, Race, and Class Inequality: Multilevel Analyses
Journal Article Systems of Gender, Race, and Class Inequality: Multilevel Analyses Get access David A. Cotter, David A. Cotter Union College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joan M. Hermsen, Joan M. Hermsen University of Missouri—Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Reeve Vanneman Reeve Vanneman University of Maryland Direct correspondence to Reeve Vanneman, Depa…
Gender Inequality in Nonmetropolitan and Metropolitan Areas1
Nonmetropolitan-metropolitan differences in the United States are large and growing, but we know relatively little about how they interact with gender differences. Using data from the CPS, the Census PUMS, and the GSS, we find nonmetropolitan and metropolitan areas are quite similar in the gender gap in earnings and in rates of married women's labor force participation. Occupational sex segregation is higher and some gender attitudes are a few pe…
Toward a Better Understanding of Perceptions of Neighborhood Social Cohesion in Rural and Urban Places
The Demand for Female Labor
A number of theorists identify the demand for female labor as a central determinant of gender inequality. The authors construct a measure of the demand for female labor and test its impact on labor market inequality, educational attainment, family structure, political representation, and gender role attitudes across 261 metropolitan areas. Areas with more traditional female occupational structures have less labor market and educational gender ine…
Gender Differences in the Determinants of Work-Related Overnight Travel among Employed Americans
This research documents the prevalence and extent of work-related overnight travel among employed men and women in the United States, revealing substantial differences by gender. Multivariate analyses show gender differences in the determinants of travel behavior with regard to job characteristics, gender ideology, and background characteristics. Interestingly, family characteristics are not important determinants for either women or men. Gender …
Occupational Gender Segregation and the Earnings Gap: Changes in the 1980s
Crime victimization distress, neighbourhood social cohesion and perceived police effectiveness
Despite important policy implications, there is scant research on the relationship between distress from victimization and perceptions of police effectiveness. This study investigates the relationship between extent of distress due to violent victimization and perceptions of local law enforcement. In addition, we examine the way that perceived neighbourhood social cohesion accounts for the relationship. We use data from a U.S. statewide victimiza…
How Does Gender Inequality in Employment and Earnings Vary by Educational Stratum in Sweden and the United States
In this article, we compare how gender inequality in labor force participation and earnings vary by educational level in Sweden and the United States, focusing on "prime age" individuals from twenty-five to fifty-four who have at least one child in their household. We also examine how educational differences in gender inequality vary across the life cycle. We show that in both nations more highly educated women are more likely to be employed than…
Gender Differences in Use of Alternative Full‐Time Work Arrangements by Married Workers
Many firms now offer alternative work arrangements to help full‐time employees resolve time conflicts between work and family. The 1997 Current Population Survey supplement on work schedules is used to investigate gender differences in personal, family, and work factors associated with flextime use among married full‐time workers. Data collected from a local firm are also used to explore gender differences in flextime and other alternative work a…
Same Data, Different Conclusions: Comment on Bernhardt Et Al
Working with the bereaved: U.S. army experiences with nontraditional families
This paper uses a postmodern family perspective to examine the interaction between Army Casualty Assistance Officers (CAOs) and the families of deceased soldiers. The data we examine are open-ended survey responses of CAOs (N = 188) who assisted bereaved families of soldiers killed in three unrelated air disasters. Five themes emerged from our analysis of the qualitative responses: postmodern family structures, contested definitions of "significa…
Measuring place of residence across urban and rural spaces: An application to fears associated with outdoor recreation
Place of residence is one factor that may affect individual engagement and experiences in outdoor recreation. In this paper we assess four measures of place of residence and their associations with fears related to outdoor recreation. Data are from a statewide survey of Missouri households conducted in 2013 (n = 3,204). Logistic regression models are used to examine different measurements of place of residence and their relationship to the likeli…
Occupational Gender Desegregation in the 1980s
This article examines the change in occupational gender segregation in the 1980s using 1980 and 1990 Public Use Microdata Samples data. This research reveals a continuing decline in occupational gender segregation in the 1980s, but at a somewhat slower pace than in the 1970s. About three quarters of the overall desegregation was due to the changing gender composition of occupations, and about one quarter was due to the faster growth of more integ…
Occupational Gender Segregation and the Earnings Gap: Changes in the 1980s
Working with the bereaved: U.S. army experiences with nontraditional families
This paper uses a postmodern family perspective to examine the interaction between Army Casualty Assistance Officers (CAOs) and the families of deceased soldiers. The data we examine are open-ended survey responses of CAOs (N = 188) who assisted bereaved families of soldiers killed in three unrelated air disasters. Five themes emerged from our analysis of the qualitative responses: postmodern family structures, contested definitions of "significa…
Gender Differences in the Determinants of Work-Related Overnight Travel among Employed Americans
This research documents the prevalence and extent of work-related overnight travel among employed men and women in the United States, revealing substantial differences by gender. Multivariate analyses show gender differences in the determinants of travel behavior with regard to job characteristics, gender ideology, and background characteristics. Interestingly, family characteristics are not important determinants for either women or men. Gender …
Gender Inequality in Nonmetropolitan and Metropolitan Areas1
Nonmetropolitan-metropolitan differences in the United States are large and growing, but we know relatively little about how they interact with gender differences. Using data from the CPS, the Census PUMS, and the GSS, we find nonmetropolitan and metropolitan areas are quite similar in the gender gap in earnings and in rates of married women's labor force participation. Occupational sex segregation is higher and some gender attitudes are a few pe…
All Women Benefit: The Macro-Level Effect of Occupational Integration on Gender Earnings Equality
Macro-level processes transfer many of the income benefits of occupational integration to all women in the labor market, not just to those women who enter predominantly male (and therefore high-paying) occupations. The authors investigate these macro-level effects in a multi-level model comparing 261 metropolitan area labor markets. They find that occupational integration is strongly associated with gender earnings equality, even after extensive …
Same Data, Different Conclusions: Comment on Bernhardt Et Al
The Demand for Female Labor
A number of theorists identify the demand for female labor as a central determinant of gender inequality. The authors construct a measure of the demand for female labor and test its impact on labor market inequality, educational attainment, family structure, political representation, and gender role attitudes across 261 metropolitan areas. Areas with more traditional female occupational structures have less labor market and educational gender ine…
Systems of Gender, Race, and Class Inequality: Multilevel Analyses
Journal Article Systems of Gender, Race, and Class Inequality: Multilevel Analyses Get access David A. Cotter, David A. Cotter Union College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joan M. Hermsen, Joan M. Hermsen University of Missouri—Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Reeve Vanneman Reeve Vanneman University of Maryland Direct correspondence to Reeve Vanneman, Depa…
The Devaluation of Women's Work: A Comment on Tam
The Glass Ceiling Effect
The popular notion of glass ceiling effects implies that gender (or other) disadvantages are stronger at the top of the hierarchy than at lower levels and that these disadvantages become worse later in a persons career. We define four specific criteria that must be met to conclude that a glass ceiling exists. Using random effects models and data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we examine gender and race inequalities at the 25th, 50th, an…
Women's Work and Working Women: The Demand for Female Labor
The demand for female labor is a central explanatory component of macrostructural theories of gender stratification. This study analyzes how the structural demand for female labor affects gender differences in labor force participation. The authors develop a measure of the gendered demand for labor by indexing the degree to which the occupational structure is skewed toward usually male or female occupations. Using census data from 1910 through 19…
Gender Differences in Use of Alternative Full‐Time Work Arrangements by Married Workers
Many firms now offer alternative work arrangements to help full‐time employees resolve time conflicts between work and family. The 1997 Current Population Survey supplement on work schedules is used to investigate gender differences in personal, family, and work factors associated with flextime use among married full‐time workers. Data collected from a local firm are also used to explore gender differences in flextime and other alternative work a…
The Effects of Occupational Gender Segregation Across Race
The general relationship between occupational gender segregation and earnings inequality is well documented, although few studies have examined the relationship separately by race/ethnicity. This article investigates occupational gender segregation effects across whites, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians. In addition, we explore two ways in which segregation may affect earnings: (1) by lowering the earnings of workers in female-dominated o…
How Does Gender Inequality in Employment and Earnings Vary by Educational Stratum in Sweden and the United States
In this article, we compare how gender inequality in labor force participation and earnings vary by educational level in Sweden and the United States, focusing on "prime age" individuals from twenty-five to fifty-four who have at least one child in their household. We also examine how educational differences in gender inequality vary across the life cycle. We show that in both nations more highly educated women are more likely to be employed than…
Is Gender Inequality Greater at Lower or Higher Educational Levels? Common Patterns in the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 16, Number 2, Summer 2009
The End of the Gender Revolution? Gender Role Attitudes from 1977 to 2008
After becoming consistently more egalitarian for more than two decades, gender role attitudes in the General Social Survey have changed little since the mid-1990s. This plateau mirrors other gender trends, suggesting a fundamental alteration in the momentum toward gender equality. While cohort replacement can explain about half of the increasing egalitarianism between 1974 and 1994, the changes since the mid-1990s are not well accounted for by co…
Measuring place of residence across urban and rural spaces: An application to fears associated with outdoor recreation
Place of residence is one factor that may affect individual engagement and experiences in outdoor recreation. In this paper we assess four measures of place of residence and their associations with fears related to outdoor recreation. Data are from a statewide survey of Missouri households conducted in 2013 (n = 3,204). Logistic regression models are used to examine different measurements of place of residence and their relationship to the likeli…
Crime victimization distress, neighbourhood social cohesion and perceived police effectiveness
Despite important policy implications, there is scant research on the relationship between distress from victimization and perceptions of police effectiveness. This study investigates the relationship between extent of distress due to violent victimization and perceptions of local law enforcement. In addition, we examine the way that perceived neighbourhood social cohesion accounts for the relationship. We use data from a U.S. statewide victimiza…
Toward a Better Understanding of Perceptions of Neighborhood Social Cohesion in Rural and Urban Places
Undergraduate Vaccine Hesitancy and the Influence of “Home” Locales
There is a link between county-level health and geographic characteristics, and individuals'-who were influenced by those counties because that is where their parents live-hesitancy towards vaccines. Identifying feasible, precise, local solutions to reducing vaccine hesitancy could take place if community members and other stakeholders would be open to changes in local-level health policy or practice
Mitigating the Spread of Covid-19: Differential Perceptions of Midwestern University Students
Racially minoritized groups have disproportionately borne the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in America. We draw on Public Health Critical Race Praxis to investigate racial differences in college students' attitudes about mitigation efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19 and concerns about one's own and others' actions in these efforts. We used survey data from a random sample of Midwestern undergraduates (n = 620) who participated in a fall 2…
Healthy Food and Nutrition Offerings at Midwestern Food Pantries: Assessing Organizational Culture, Capacity, and Practices
Food pantries differ in terms of their commitment to, capacity for, and practices in support of healthy eating options and nutrition programming for food pantry users. We assess these differences in a sample of 476 food pantries in the Midwestern United States. Using survey data collected in 2021 from food pantry directors, we find high support for offering healthy food options at pantries, although there are some pantry infrastructure and staff …
Sociology (18 works) · Economics (16 works) · Demographic economics (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Demography (9 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Inequality (8 works)