Catherine E Harnois
Biographic Data
| ID | 669603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine E Harnois |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine E |
| FAMILY NAME | Harnois |
| SIGNATURE | HARNOIS C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wake Forest University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2868-2990 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 382 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Higher educational attainment and later-life cognition: Twentieth-century linkages by gender and race in the United States
Midlife Gender Discrimination and Later-Life Cognition: Results from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States
Objective Discrimination of various types is associated with social stress, which in turn is implicated in later-life cognitive decline. However, women who have higher socioeconomic status and who are younger are more likely to perceive gender discrimination. This leaves unclear whether gender discrimination bears independent, detrimental links to later-life cognition. Methods We implement longitudinal regression analyses of the 1995-2015 Nationa…
The Multiple Meanings of Discrimination
Discrimination is one of the most important concepts for understanding, analyzing, and addressing social inequality. It is a term with many meanings, however, and existing research tells us little about how people understand and use the term. This study analyzes data from interviews with 38 English-speaking adults in the southeastern United States to examine how people use and make sense of the term discrimination. In structured interviews, parti…
What do we measure when we measure perceptions of everyday discrimination
Intersectionality, Contextual Specificity, and Everyday Discrimination: Assessing the Difficulty Associated With Identifying a Main Reason for Discrimination Among Racial/Ethnic Minority Respondents
The Everyday Discrimination Scale is the most commonly used instrument to assess discrimination. The survey asks respondents about a range of negative interpersonal experiences and then asks them to provide a single main reason for all these experiences. Theories of intersectionality cast doubt on the idea that marginalized individuals generally perceive a single reason for the discrimination they encounter. We analyze data from 23 cognitive inte…
Categorical Variables Without Categorical Thinking? A Relational Reading of the Sri Lankan Demographic and Health Survey
Bridging the Gender Wage Gap: Gendered Cultural Sentiments, Sex Segregation, and Occupation-Level Wages
The extent to which cultural beliefs about gender shape occupation-level wages remains a central yet unresolved question in the study of gender inequality. Human capital theorists predict that gendered beliefs have no direct effect on occupation-level wages. Devaluation theorists argue that occupations associated with women and femininity are systematically devalued and thus underpaid. We test these explanations using data from the American Commu…
Higher exposure, lower vulnerability? The curious case of education, gender discrimination, and Women's health
Does the Everyday Discrimination Scale generate meaningful cross-group estimates? A psychometric evaluation
The promise and pitfalls of intersectional scale development
Measuring perceived mistreatment across diverse social groups: An evaluation of the Everyday Discrimination Scale
Sandya Hewamanne, Sri Lanka's Global Factory Workers: (Un)disciplined Desires and Sexual Struggles in a Post-Colonial Society
Where the Millennials Will Take Us: A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure
Barbara Risman’s new book, Where the Millennials will Take us, is the first in-depth study of how millennials in the United States (US) understand the social organization of gender and their relation to it. Drawing from more than one hundred life history interviews with people who, in 2013, were aged 18–30—a sample diverse with respect to race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality—Risman illuminates the range of gendered identities and ideologies that…
Health care barriers, racism, and intersectionality in Australia
Discrimination, Harassment, and Gendered Health Inequalities: Do Perceptions of Workplace Mistreatment Contribute to the Gender Gap in Self-reported Health
This study examines the extent to which discrimination and harassment contribute to gendered health disparities. Analyzing data from the 2006, 2010, and 2014 General Social Surveys ( N = 3,724), we ask the following: (1) To what extent are perceptions of workplace gender discrimination and sexual harassment associated with self-reported mental and physical health? (2) How do multiple forms of workplace mistreatment (e.g., racism, ageism, and sexi…
When Does Differential Treatment Become Perceived Discrimination? An Intersectional Analysis in a Southern Brazilian Population
Despite ideals of equality and "racial democracy," high levels of social inequality persist in contemporary Brazil. In addition, while the majority of the Brazilian population acknowledges the persistence of racism, high proportions of socially disadvantaged groups do not regard themselves as victims of discrimination. This study seeks to shed light on this issue by investigating the processes through which individuals come to interpret their exp…
Intersectional Masculinities and Gendered Political Consciousness: How Do Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality Shape Men’s Awareness of Gender Inequality and Support for Gender Activism
An Explanation for the Gender Gap in Perceptions of Discrimination among African Americans: Considering the Role of Gender Bias in Measurement
Studies indicate that African American men report more personal experiences with discrimination than do African American women. According to the subordinate male target hypothesis, this gender difference reflects an underlying reality in which African American men are the primary targets of anti-Black discrimination. From the perspective of intersectionality theory, African American women and men experience racial discrimination differently; and …
Jeopardy, Consciousness, and Multiple Discrimination: Intersecting Inequalities in Contemporary Western Europe
Theories of intersectionality argue that individuals with multiple minority statuses often face mistreatment that stems from multiple, interlocking systems of inequality. King (1988) refers to this phenomenon as “multiple jeopardy,” and argues that those who experience multiple jeopardy often develop a “multiple consciousness”—an awareness of multiple systems of inequality working with and through one another. This study analyzes recent survey da…
Race, Ethnicity, Sexuality, and Women’s Political Consciousness of Gender
Existing research emphasizes the importance of group identification and perceived similarity in the development of group consciousness. Intersectionality suggests that for many women, a political consciousness of gender may also stem from experiences with race, ethnicity, and sexuality and may be interconnected with a consciousness of other forms of inequality. This study analyzes data from a recent national survey to investigate how race, ethnic…
Race and the lifecourse: Readings From the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Age
Race and the lifecourse: readings from the intersection of race, ethnicity, and age." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39(8), pp. 1513–1514
Measure and Value
Are Perceptions of Discrimination Unidimensional, Oppositional, or Intersectional? Examining the Relationship among Perceived Racial-Ethnic-, Gender-, and Age-Based Discrimination
This study investigates the relationship among perceptions of racial-ethnic, age, and gender discrimination for racial-ethnic minority individuals. Three broad frameworks for understanding discrimination are described: unidimensional, oppositional, and intersectional. The strengths of each approach are assessed by analyzing data from the General Social Surveys (2002, 2006, and 2010). Findings provide no support for the oppositional framework, qua…
Feminist Measures in Survey Research
This title offers a new approach for bridging feminist theory and quantitative social science research. Catherine E. Harnois demonstrates how a multiracial feminist perspective can inform virtually every aspect of the research process, from survey design and statistical modelling to the frameworks used to interpret the results
Sociological Research on Feminism and the Women’s Movement: Ideology, Identity, and Practice
This article provides an overview of sociological research on three aspects of feminism: feminism as an ideology; feminism as an identity; and feminism as a practice. I summarize the main contributions of sociological research in each of these areas, and highlight the overarching contributions for understanding contemporary feminism. Three contributions are key. First, sociological research highlights the existence multiple varieties of feminism …
Gendered measures, gendered models: Toward an Intersectional Analysis of Interpersonal Racial Discrimination
In this paper we draw from black and multiracial feminist theories to argue that interpersonal racial discrimination should be understood as a potentially gendered phenomenon. While there are some discriminatory practices that are directed at both black men and black women, some forms of racial discrimination affect men more than women, and some affect women more than men. Still other forms may be gender-specific. Our review of existing literatur…
Measuring perceived mistreatment across diverse social groups: An evaluation of the Everyday Discrimination Scale
An Explanation for the Gender Gap in Perceptions of Discrimination among African Americans: Considering the Role of Gender Bias in Measurement
Studies indicate that African American men report more personal experiences with discrimination than do African American women. According to the subordinate male target hypothesis, this gender difference reflects an underlying reality in which African American men are the primary targets of anti-Black discrimination. From the perspective of intersectionality theory, African American women and men experience racial discrimination differently; and …
Race, Ethnicity, Sexuality, and Women’s Political Consciousness of Gender
Existing research emphasizes the importance of group identification and perceived similarity in the development of group consciousness. Intersectionality suggests that for many women, a political consciousness of gender may also stem from experiences with race, ethnicity, and sexuality and may be interconnected with a consciousness of other forms of inequality. This study analyzes data from a recent national survey to investigate how race, ethnic…
Does the Everyday Discrimination Scale generate meaningful cross-group estimates? A psychometric evaluation
Health care barriers, racism, and intersectionality in Australia
Discrimination, Harassment, and Gendered Health Inequalities: Do Perceptions of Workplace Mistreatment Contribute to the Gender Gap in Self-reported Health
This study examines the extent to which discrimination and harassment contribute to gendered health disparities. Analyzing data from the 2006, 2010, and 2014 General Social Surveys ( N = 3,724), we ask the following: (1) To what extent are perceptions of workplace gender discrimination and sexual harassment associated with self-reported mental and physical health? (2) How do multiple forms of workplace mistreatment (e.g., racism, ageism, and sexi…
Are Perceptions of Discrimination Unidimensional, Oppositional, or Intersectional? Examining the Relationship among Perceived Racial-Ethnic-, Gender-, and Age-Based Discrimination
This study investigates the relationship among perceptions of racial-ethnic, age, and gender discrimination for racial-ethnic minority individuals. Three broad frameworks for understanding discrimination are described: unidimensional, oppositional, and intersectional. The strengths of each approach are assessed by analyzing data from the General Social Surveys (2002, 2006, and 2010). Findings provide no support for the oppositional framework, qua…
Intersectional Masculinities and Gendered Political Consciousness: How Do Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality Shape Men’s Awareness of Gender Inequality and Support for Gender Activism
Different Paths to Different Feminisms? Bridging Multiracial Feminist Theory and Quantitative Sociological Gender Research
This article examines the limitations of the sociological research on feminist identities and ideologies that ignores the intersection of race and gender. Drawing from multiracial feminist theorizing, the author asks, Is self-identification as feminist a biased indicator of the salience of feminism in African American women's lives? Do women's racial statuses mediate the relationship between particular life events and experiences and the extent t…
The promise and pitfalls of intersectional scale development
When Does Differential Treatment Become Perceived Discrimination? An Intersectional Analysis in a Southern Brazilian Population
Despite ideals of equality and "racial democracy," high levels of social inequality persist in contemporary Brazil. In addition, while the majority of the Brazilian population acknowledges the persistence of racism, high proportions of socially disadvantaged groups do not regard themselves as victims of discrimination. This study seeks to shed light on this issue by investigating the processes through which individuals come to interpret their exp…
Race, Gender, and the Black Women’s Standpoint
Hill Collins (1997, 1998, 2000) argues that because of their position within the intersecting hierarchies of race, gender, and class, black women as a group possess a “unique angle of vision” on the social world. Rooted in the everyday experiences of black women, the “black women’s standpoint” is marked by an intersectional understanding of oppression and a “legacy of struggle” against such oppression. In this article, I employ quantitative analy…
What do we measure when we measure perceptions of everyday discrimination
Intersectionality, Contextual Specificity, and Everyday Discrimination: Assessing the Difficulty Associated With Identifying a Main Reason for Discrimination Among Racial/Ethnic Minority Respondents
The Everyday Discrimination Scale is the most commonly used instrument to assess discrimination. The survey asks respondents about a range of negative interpersonal experiences and then asks them to provide a single main reason for all these experiences. Theories of intersectionality cast doubt on the idea that marginalized individuals generally perceive a single reason for the discrimination they encounter. We analyze data from 23 cognitive inte…
Bridging the Gender Wage Gap: Gendered Cultural Sentiments, Sex Segregation, and Occupation-Level Wages
The extent to which cultural beliefs about gender shape occupation-level wages remains a central yet unresolved question in the study of gender inequality. Human capital theorists predict that gendered beliefs have no direct effect on occupation-level wages. Devaluation theorists argue that occupations associated with women and femininity are systematically devalued and thus underpaid. We test these explanations using data from the American Commu…
Jeopardy, Consciousness, and Multiple Discrimination: Intersecting Inequalities in Contemporary Western Europe
Theories of intersectionality argue that individuals with multiple minority statuses often face mistreatment that stems from multiple, interlocking systems of inequality. King (1988) refers to this phenomenon as “multiple jeopardy,” and argues that those who experience multiple jeopardy often develop a “multiple consciousness”—an awareness of multiple systems of inequality working with and through one another. This study analyzes recent survey da…
Higher exposure, lower vulnerability? The curious case of education, gender discrimination, and Women's health
Sociological Research on Feminism and the Women’s Movement: Ideology, Identity, and Practice
This article provides an overview of sociological research on three aspects of feminism: feminism as an ideology; feminism as an identity; and feminism as a practice. I summarize the main contributions of sociological research in each of these areas, and highlight the overarching contributions for understanding contemporary feminism. Three contributions are key. First, sociological research highlights the existence multiple varieties of feminism …
The Multiple Meanings of Discrimination
Discrimination is one of the most important concepts for understanding, analyzing, and addressing social inequality. It is a term with many meanings, however, and existing research tells us little about how people understand and use the term. This study analyzes data from interviews with 38 English-speaking adults in the southeastern United States to examine how people use and make sense of the term discrimination. In structured interviews, parti…
Categorical Variables Without Categorical Thinking? A Relational Reading of the Sri Lankan Demographic and Health Survey
Race and the lifecourse: Readings From the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Age
Race and the lifecourse: readings from the intersection of race, ethnicity, and age." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39(8), pp. 1513–1514
Different Paths to Different Feminisms? Bridging Multiracial Feminist Theory and Quantitative Sociological Gender Research
This article examines the limitations of the sociological research on feminist identities and ideologies that ignores the intersection of race and gender. Drawing from multiracial feminist theorizing, the author asks, Is self-identification as feminist a biased indicator of the salience of feminism in African American women's lives? Do women's racial statuses mediate the relationship between particular life events and experiences and the extent t…
Race, Gender, and the Black Women’s Standpoint
Hill Collins (1997, 1998, 2000) argues that because of their position within the intersecting hierarchies of race, gender, and class, black women as a group possess a “unique angle of vision” on the social world. Rooted in the everyday experiences of black women, the “black women’s standpoint” is marked by an intersectional understanding of oppression and a “legacy of struggle” against such oppression. In this article, I employ quantitative analy…
Gendered measures, gendered models: Toward an Intersectional Analysis of Interpersonal Racial Discrimination
In this paper we draw from black and multiracial feminist theories to argue that interpersonal racial discrimination should be understood as a potentially gendered phenomenon. While there are some discriminatory practices that are directed at both black men and black women, some forms of racial discrimination affect men more than women, and some affect women more than men. Still other forms may be gender-specific. Our review of existing literatur…
Sociological Research on Feminism and the Women’s Movement: Ideology, Identity, and Practice
This article provides an overview of sociological research on three aspects of feminism: feminism as an ideology; feminism as an identity; and feminism as a practice. I summarize the main contributions of sociological research in each of these areas, and highlight the overarching contributions for understanding contemporary feminism. Three contributions are key. First, sociological research highlights the existence multiple varieties of feminism …
Feminist Measures in Survey Research
This title offers a new approach for bridging feminist theory and quantitative social science research. Catherine E. Harnois demonstrates how a multiracial feminist perspective can inform virtually every aspect of the research process, from survey design and statistical modelling to the frameworks used to interpret the results
Measure and Value
Are Perceptions of Discrimination Unidimensional, Oppositional, or Intersectional? Examining the Relationship among Perceived Racial-Ethnic-, Gender-, and Age-Based Discrimination
This study investigates the relationship among perceptions of racial-ethnic, age, and gender discrimination for racial-ethnic minority individuals. Three broad frameworks for understanding discrimination are described: unidimensional, oppositional, and intersectional. The strengths of each approach are assessed by analyzing data from the General Social Surveys (2002, 2006, and 2010). Findings provide no support for the oppositional framework, qua…
Jeopardy, Consciousness, and Multiple Discrimination: Intersecting Inequalities in Contemporary Western Europe
Theories of intersectionality argue that individuals with multiple minority statuses often face mistreatment that stems from multiple, interlocking systems of inequality. King (1988) refers to this phenomenon as “multiple jeopardy,” and argues that those who experience multiple jeopardy often develop a “multiple consciousness”—an awareness of multiple systems of inequality working with and through one another. This study analyzes recent survey da…
Race, Ethnicity, Sexuality, and Women’s Political Consciousness of Gender
Existing research emphasizes the importance of group identification and perceived similarity in the development of group consciousness. Intersectionality suggests that for many women, a political consciousness of gender may also stem from experiences with race, ethnicity, and sexuality and may be interconnected with a consciousness of other forms of inequality. This study analyzes data from a recent national survey to investigate how race, ethnic…
Race and the lifecourse: Readings From the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Age
Race and the lifecourse: readings from the intersection of race, ethnicity, and age." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39(8), pp. 1513–1514
Intersectional Masculinities and Gendered Political Consciousness: How Do Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality Shape Men’s Awareness of Gender Inequality and Support for Gender Activism
An Explanation for the Gender Gap in Perceptions of Discrimination among African Americans: Considering the Role of Gender Bias in Measurement
Studies indicate that African American men report more personal experiences with discrimination than do African American women. According to the subordinate male target hypothesis, this gender difference reflects an underlying reality in which African American men are the primary targets of anti-Black discrimination. From the perspective of intersectionality theory, African American women and men experience racial discrimination differently; and …
When Does Differential Treatment Become Perceived Discrimination? An Intersectional Analysis in a Southern Brazilian Population
Despite ideals of equality and "racial democracy," high levels of social inequality persist in contemporary Brazil. In addition, while the majority of the Brazilian population acknowledges the persistence of racism, high proportions of socially disadvantaged groups do not regard themselves as victims of discrimination. This study seeks to shed light on this issue by investigating the processes through which individuals come to interpret their exp…
Health care barriers, racism, and intersectionality in Australia
Discrimination, Harassment, and Gendered Health Inequalities: Do Perceptions of Workplace Mistreatment Contribute to the Gender Gap in Self-reported Health
This study examines the extent to which discrimination and harassment contribute to gendered health disparities. Analyzing data from the 2006, 2010, and 2014 General Social Surveys ( N = 3,724), we ask the following: (1) To what extent are perceptions of workplace gender discrimination and sexual harassment associated with self-reported mental and physical health? (2) How do multiple forms of workplace mistreatment (e.g., racism, ageism, and sexi…
The promise and pitfalls of intersectional scale development
Measuring perceived mistreatment across diverse social groups: An evaluation of the Everyday Discrimination Scale
Sandya Hewamanne, Sri Lanka's Global Factory Workers: (Un)disciplined Desires and Sexual Struggles in a Post-Colonial Society
Where the Millennials Will Take Us: A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure
Barbara Risman’s new book, Where the Millennials will Take us, is the first in-depth study of how millennials in the United States (US) understand the social organization of gender and their relation to it. Drawing from more than one hundred life history interviews with people who, in 2013, were aged 18–30—a sample diverse with respect to race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality—Risman illuminates the range of gendered identities and ideologies that…
Categorical Variables Without Categorical Thinking? A Relational Reading of the Sri Lankan Demographic and Health Survey
Bridging the Gender Wage Gap: Gendered Cultural Sentiments, Sex Segregation, and Occupation-Level Wages
The extent to which cultural beliefs about gender shape occupation-level wages remains a central yet unresolved question in the study of gender inequality. Human capital theorists predict that gendered beliefs have no direct effect on occupation-level wages. Devaluation theorists argue that occupations associated with women and femininity are systematically devalued and thus underpaid. We test these explanations using data from the American Commu…
Higher exposure, lower vulnerability? The curious case of education, gender discrimination, and Women's health
Does the Everyday Discrimination Scale generate meaningful cross-group estimates? A psychometric evaluation
What do we measure when we measure perceptions of everyday discrimination
Intersectionality, Contextual Specificity, and Everyday Discrimination: Assessing the Difficulty Associated With Identifying a Main Reason for Discrimination Among Racial/Ethnic Minority Respondents
The Everyday Discrimination Scale is the most commonly used instrument to assess discrimination. The survey asks respondents about a range of negative interpersonal experiences and then asks them to provide a single main reason for all these experiences. Theories of intersectionality cast doubt on the idea that marginalized individuals generally perceive a single reason for the discrimination they encounter. We analyze data from 23 cognitive inte…
Psychology (22 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Gender Studies (20 works) · Social Psychology (19 works) · Gender Studies (16 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Political science (12 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (12 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (11 works) · Racism (11 works)