A H Rao
Biographic Data
| ID | 43891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A H Rao |
| GIVEN NAMES | A H |
| FAMILY NAME | Rao |
| SIGNATURE | RAO A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0674-4206 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Problem with Rapport in Interview-Based Studies
Rapport is an orienting principle in qualitative research. It is a capacious concept which, in practice, is deployed by researchers in a wide variety of ways. Despite its definitional ambiguity, in interview-based studies, researchers often link rapport to obtaining more open and honest – and thus high-quality – data. While rapport has been critiqued in the ethnographic tradition, these critiques have not extended to the particularities of interv…
How kin help with parental investments
Designing for justice in freelancing: Testing platform interventions to minimise discrimination in online labour markets
Online labour markets (OLMs) are a vital source of income for globally diverse and dispersed freelancers. Despite their promise of neutrality, OLMs are known to perpetuate hiring discrimination, vested in how OLMs are designed and what kinds of interactions they enable between freelancers and hirers. In this study, we go beyond understanding mechanisms of hiring discrimination in OLMs, to identifying platform design features that can minimise hir…
Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn't
Relational Work in the Family: The Gendered Microfoundation of Parents' Economic Decisions
How do parents decide what goods, experiences, and activities they can afford for their children during times of economic insecurity? This article draws on 72 in-depth interviews with U.S. professional middle-class families in which one parent is unemployed. Extending the concept of relational work, this study illuminates how the microfoundation of economic decisions is gendered. Families where fathers are unemployed take the approach of relation…
Intensive Family Observations: A Methodological Guide
There is a dearth of methodological guidance on how to conduct participant observation in private spaces such as family homes. Yet, participant observations can provide deep and valuable data about family processes. This article draws on two ethnographic studies of family life in which researchers conduct in-depth interviews, recruit families, and ultimately enter the family as a quasi-stranger for daily observations lasting a fixed period (e.g.,…
The Ideal Job‐Seeker Norm: Unemployment and Marital Privileges in the Professional Middle‐Class
Objective To understand how heterosexual US married parents interpret and respond to a spouse's unemployment and subsequent job‐searching. Background The pervasiveness of employment uncertainty, and unemployment, may propel families to embrace gender egalitarian norms. Quantitative research finds that this possibility is not borne out. Qualitative research has sought to illuminate mechanisms as to how gender norms persist even during a time that …
Experiences of white‐collar job loss and job‐searching in the United States
Unemployment is a pervasive and stubborn feature of contemporary social and economic life. This review article focuses on the meaning and experience of contemporary white‐collar unemployment in the United States. After explaining the empirical and theoretical rationales for the focus on white‐collar workers, this review delves into three aspects of white‐collar unemployment: who loses jobs; what unemployment means for one's sense of self, marital…
Gendered Interpretations of Job Loss and Subsequent Professional Pathways
While we know that career interruptions shape men's and women's professional trajectories, we know less about how job loss may matter for this process. Drawing on interviews with unemployed, college-educated men and women in professional occupations, I show that while both men and women interpret their job loss as due to impersonal 'business' decisions, women additionally attribute their job loss as arising from employers' 'personal' decisions. M…
The Squandered Potential of Working Mothers
Failures of Flexibility: How Perceived Control Motivates the Individualization of Work-Life Conflict
Firms have increasingly used flexibility policies to facilitate work-life balance, yet existing research shows that employees are stigmatized for using these seemingly beneficial policies. In this article, the authors identify perceived control, that is, the sense of control employees feel they have over managing their work-life conflicts, as a key factor in their avoidance of flexibility policies. Through 50 in-depth interviews with management c…
From Professionals to Professional Mothers: How College-educated Married Mothers Experience Unemployment in the US
Unemployment influences life experiences and outcomes, but how it does so may be shaped by gender and parenthood. Because research on unemployment focuses on men's experiences of unemployment, it presents as universal a process that may be gendered. This article asks: how do college-educated, heterosexual, married mothers experience involuntary unemployment? Drawing on in-depth interviews with unemployed mothers in the US, their husbands, and fol…
What's love got to do with it? Passion and inequality in white‐collar work
Emotion has become an increasingly important aspect of work in the 21st century. In this article, we take stock of the extant literature delineating the role of emotions, especially passion as a cultural schema, in white‐collar workplaces. Scholars have covered extensive ground on emotions at work, but the role of passion remains an underexplored yet significant area. Drawing from recent developments in research on white‐collar work, we argue tha…
Stand By Your Man: Wives' Emotion Work During Men's Unemployment
Recent research on unemployment has not sufficiently acknowledged how unemployment reverberates within families, particularly emotionally. This article uses data from more than 50 in-depth interviews to illuminate the emotional demands that men's unemployment makes beyond the unemployed individual. It shows that wives of unemployed men do two types of emotion work-self-focused and other-focused-and both are aimed toward facilitating husbands' suc…
Gender and Cultivating the Moral Self in Islam: Muslim Converts in an American Mosque
Journal Article Gender and Cultivating the Moral Self in Islam: Muslim Converts in an American Mosque Get access Aliya Hamid Rao Aliya Hamid Rao University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA *Direct correspondence to Aliya Hamid Rao, University of Pennsylvania, Suite 113, McNeil Building, 3718 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. E-mail:[email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Socio…
Stand By Your Man: Wives' Emotion Work During Men's Unemployment
Recent research on unemployment has not sufficiently acknowledged how unemployment reverberates within families, particularly emotionally. This article uses data from more than 50 in-depth interviews to illuminate the emotional demands that men's unemployment makes beyond the unemployed individual. It shows that wives of unemployed men do two types of emotion work-self-focused and other-focused-and both are aimed toward facilitating husbands' suc…
Relational Work in the Family: The Gendered Microfoundation of Parents' Economic Decisions
How do parents decide what goods, experiences, and activities they can afford for their children during times of economic insecurity? This article draws on 72 in-depth interviews with U.S. professional middle-class families in which one parent is unemployed. Extending the concept of relational work, this study illuminates how the microfoundation of economic decisions is gendered. Families where fathers are unemployed take the approach of relation…
What's love got to do with it? Passion and inequality in white‐collar work
Emotion has become an increasingly important aspect of work in the 21st century. In this article, we take stock of the extant literature delineating the role of emotions, especially passion as a cultural schema, in white‐collar workplaces. Scholars have covered extensive ground on emotions at work, but the role of passion remains an underexplored yet significant area. Drawing from recent developments in research on white‐collar work, we argue tha…
From Professionals to Professional Mothers: How College-educated Married Mothers Experience Unemployment in the US
Unemployment influences life experiences and outcomes, but how it does so may be shaped by gender and parenthood. Because research on unemployment focuses on men's experiences of unemployment, it presents as universal a process that may be gendered. This article asks: how do college-educated, heterosexual, married mothers experience involuntary unemployment? Drawing on in-depth interviews with unemployed mothers in the US, their husbands, and fol…
Intensive Family Observations: A Methodological Guide
There is a dearth of methodological guidance on how to conduct participant observation in private spaces such as family homes. Yet, participant observations can provide deep and valuable data about family processes. This article draws on two ethnographic studies of family life in which researchers conduct in-depth interviews, recruit families, and ultimately enter the family as a quasi-stranger for daily observations lasting a fixed period (e.g.,…
Failures of Flexibility: How Perceived Control Motivates the Individualization of Work-Life Conflict
Firms have increasingly used flexibility policies to facilitate work-life balance, yet existing research shows that employees are stigmatized for using these seemingly beneficial policies. In this article, the authors identify perceived control, that is, the sense of control employees feel they have over managing their work-life conflicts, as a key factor in their avoidance of flexibility policies. Through 50 in-depth interviews with management c…
Gender and Cultivating the Moral Self in Islam: Muslim Converts in an American Mosque
Journal Article Gender and Cultivating the Moral Self in Islam: Muslim Converts in an American Mosque Get access Aliya Hamid Rao Aliya Hamid Rao University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA *Direct correspondence to Aliya Hamid Rao, University of Pennsylvania, Suite 113, McNeil Building, 3718 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. E-mail:[email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Socio…
Gendered Interpretations of Job Loss and Subsequent Professional Pathways
While we know that career interruptions shape men's and women's professional trajectories, we know less about how job loss may matter for this process. Drawing on interviews with unemployed, college-educated men and women in professional occupations, I show that while both men and women interpret their job loss as due to impersonal 'business' decisions, women additionally attribute their job loss as arising from employers' 'personal' decisions. M…
The Squandered Potential of Working Mothers
Gender and Cultivating the Moral Self in Islam: Muslim Converts in an American Mosque
Journal Article Gender and Cultivating the Moral Self in Islam: Muslim Converts in an American Mosque Get access Aliya Hamid Rao Aliya Hamid Rao University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA *Direct correspondence to Aliya Hamid Rao, University of Pennsylvania, Suite 113, McNeil Building, 3718 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. E-mail:[email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Socio…
Stand By Your Man: Wives' Emotion Work During Men's Unemployment
Recent research on unemployment has not sufficiently acknowledged how unemployment reverberates within families, particularly emotionally. This article uses data from more than 50 in-depth interviews to illuminate the emotional demands that men's unemployment makes beyond the unemployed individual. It shows that wives of unemployed men do two types of emotion work-self-focused and other-focused-and both are aimed toward facilitating husbands' suc…
What's love got to do with it? Passion and inequality in white‐collar work
Emotion has become an increasingly important aspect of work in the 21st century. In this article, we take stock of the extant literature delineating the role of emotions, especially passion as a cultural schema, in white‐collar workplaces. Scholars have covered extensive ground on emotions at work, but the role of passion remains an underexplored yet significant area. Drawing from recent developments in research on white‐collar work, we argue tha…
The Squandered Potential of Working Mothers
Failures of Flexibility: How Perceived Control Motivates the Individualization of Work-Life Conflict
Firms have increasingly used flexibility policies to facilitate work-life balance, yet existing research shows that employees are stigmatized for using these seemingly beneficial policies. In this article, the authors identify perceived control, that is, the sense of control employees feel they have over managing their work-life conflicts, as a key factor in their avoidance of flexibility policies. Through 50 in-depth interviews with management c…
From Professionals to Professional Mothers: How College-educated Married Mothers Experience Unemployment in the US
Unemployment influences life experiences and outcomes, but how it does so may be shaped by gender and parenthood. Because research on unemployment focuses on men's experiences of unemployment, it presents as universal a process that may be gendered. This article asks: how do college-educated, heterosexual, married mothers experience involuntary unemployment? Drawing on in-depth interviews with unemployed mothers in the US, their husbands, and fol…
The Ideal Job‐Seeker Norm: Unemployment and Marital Privileges in the Professional Middle‐Class
Objective To understand how heterosexual US married parents interpret and respond to a spouse's unemployment and subsequent job‐searching. Background The pervasiveness of employment uncertainty, and unemployment, may propel families to embrace gender egalitarian norms. Quantitative research finds that this possibility is not borne out. Qualitative research has sought to illuminate mechanisms as to how gender norms persist even during a time that …
Experiences of white‐collar job loss and job‐searching in the United States
Unemployment is a pervasive and stubborn feature of contemporary social and economic life. This review article focuses on the meaning and experience of contemporary white‐collar unemployment in the United States. After explaining the empirical and theoretical rationales for the focus on white‐collar workers, this review delves into three aspects of white‐collar unemployment: who loses jobs; what unemployment means for one's sense of self, marital…
Gendered Interpretations of Job Loss and Subsequent Professional Pathways
While we know that career interruptions shape men's and women's professional trajectories, we know less about how job loss may matter for this process. Drawing on interviews with unemployed, college-educated men and women in professional occupations, I show that while both men and women interpret their job loss as due to impersonal 'business' decisions, women additionally attribute their job loss as arising from employers' 'personal' decisions. M…
Relational Work in the Family: The Gendered Microfoundation of Parents' Economic Decisions
How do parents decide what goods, experiences, and activities they can afford for their children during times of economic insecurity? This article draws on 72 in-depth interviews with U.S. professional middle-class families in which one parent is unemployed. Extending the concept of relational work, this study illuminates how the microfoundation of economic decisions is gendered. Families where fathers are unemployed take the approach of relation…
Intensive Family Observations: A Methodological Guide
There is a dearth of methodological guidance on how to conduct participant observation in private spaces such as family homes. Yet, participant observations can provide deep and valuable data about family processes. This article draws on two ethnographic studies of family life in which researchers conduct in-depth interviews, recruit families, and ultimately enter the family as a quasi-stranger for daily observations lasting a fixed period (e.g.,…
Designing for justice in freelancing: Testing platform interventions to minimise discrimination in online labour markets
Online labour markets (OLMs) are a vital source of income for globally diverse and dispersed freelancers. Despite their promise of neutrality, OLMs are known to perpetuate hiring discrimination, vested in how OLMs are designed and what kinds of interactions they enable between freelancers and hirers. In this study, we go beyond understanding mechanisms of hiring discrimination in OLMs, to identifying platform design features that can minimise hir…
Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn't
How kin help with parental investments
The Problem with Rapport in Interview-Based Studies
Rapport is an orienting principle in qualitative research. It is a capacious concept which, in practice, is deployed by researchers in a wide variety of ways. Despite its definitional ambiguity, in interview-based studies, researchers often link rapport to obtaining more open and honest – and thus high-quality – data. While rapport has been critiqued in the ethnographic tradition, these critiques have not extended to the particularities of interv…
Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (7 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Unemployment (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (4 works)