Thebaud
Biographic Data
| ID | 81157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thebaud |
| FAMILY NAME | Thebaud |
| SIGNATURE | THEBAUD |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3262-7732 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 582 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Understanding Gender Disparities in Caregiving, Stress, and Perceptions of Institutional Support among Faculty during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The loss of the care infrastructure that occurred during the COVID-19 crisis exposed society’s continued reliance on women and mothers as default caregivers. But less is known about how this crisis produced gendered mental health outcomes, especially in occupations characterized by intensive work cultures such as academia. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative responses from a May 2021 campus-wide survey of faculty at a large research universit…
Separate Spheres: The Gender Division of Labor in the Financial Elite
In recent decades, the financial elite have seen their economic resources grow significantly, while the income and wealth of other households have stagnated. The financial elite includes couples who are super-rich (top one percent), rich (the 90th–99th percentile), and upper-middle class (the 80th–89th percentile). Gendered work–family arrangements in top economic groups may contribute to inequality—particularly to wealth accumulation among the e…
When Do Work-Family Policies Work? Unpacking the Effects of Stigma and Financial Costs for Men and Women
Work-family policies-such as parental leave and flextime-can help to facilitate gender equality in workplaces and in families. But policy use is typically low, varies significantly from one workplace to another, and is often more prevalent among women than men. Extant research suggests that flexibility stigma-workplace norms that penalize workers for utilizing policies that facilitate non-work demands-as well as the financial costs associated wit…
Gender in the Elite
Research on elites experienced a resurgence in sociology over a decade ago, but this work was largely gender neutral. Recently, a body of work on elite women and gender dynamics in elite families emerged and is growing rapidly. We propose here that gendered processes are critical for understanding the reproduction of elite privilege and inequality and highlight three subjects that dominate contemporary literature in this area. First, we address w…
The Specter of Motherhood: Culture and the Production of Gendered Career Aspirations in Science and Engineering
Why are young women less likely than young men to persist in academic science and engineering? Drawing on 57 in-depth interviews with PhD students and postdoctoral scholars in the United States, we describe how, in academic science and engineering, motherhood is constructed in opposition to professional legitimacy, and as a subject of fear, repudiation, and public controversy. We call this the 'specter of motherhood.' This specter disadvantages y…
Good Housekeeping, Great Expectations: Gender and Housework Norms
Gender remains a key predictor of housework in modern society. However, previous studies have been relatively limited in their ability to adjudicate between possible mechanisms operating at the individual and social-interactional level that may cause this relationship. To address this gap, we employ a novel experimental design in which respondents view and evaluate photos of a relatively clean or messy room, which is ostensibly occupied by either…
One step forward? Advances and setbacks on the path toward gender equality in families and work
Men and women increasingly express egalitarian preferences for organizing family life, but workplace norms and practices are still based on relatively traditional assumptions about the gender division of labor in families. In this article, we unpack this discordant feature of the cultural landscape with recent sociological research on gender, work, and family. We begin by discussing the growing body of evidence on preferences for gender–egalitari…
Segregation, Stereotypes, and STEM
Scientific, technical, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) occupations are strongholds of gender segregation in the contemporary United States. While many Americans regard this segregation as natural and inevitable, closer examination reveals a great deal of variability in the gendering of STEM fields across time, space, and demographic groups. This article assesses how different theoretical accounts accord with the available evidence on the gen…
When Beauty Doesn't Pay: Gender and Beauty Biases in a Peer-to-Peer Loan Market
We analyzed a random sample of individual listings from an online market for peer-to-peer lending to examine the effects of gender and attractiveness on receiving loans. In this setting, we tested the theoretical argument that women are penalized for violating beliefs about women's social roles when they seek loans for male-typed endeavors, such as running a business. Consistent with this theory, female borrowers seeking loans for business purpos…
Degrees of Difference: Gender Segregation of U.S. Doctorates by Field and Program Prestige
Women earn nearly half of doctoral degrees in research fields, yet doctoral education in the United States remains deeply segregated by gender. We argue that in addition to the oft-noted segregation of men and women by field of study, men and women may also be segregated across programs that differ in their prestige. Using data on all doctorates awarded in the United States from 2003 to 2014, field-specific program rankings, and field-level measu…
The Effects of Gendered Occupational Roles on Men's and Women's Workplace Authority: Evidence from Microfinance
The gendering of occupational roles affects a variety of outcomes for workers and organizations. We examine how the gender of an initial role occupant influences the authority enjoyed by individuals who subsequently fill that role. We use data from a microfinance bank in Central America to examine how working initially with a male or female loan manager shapes borrowers' compliance with future managers' directives. First, we show that borrowers o…
Unequal Hard Times: The Influence of the Great Recession on Gender Bias in Entrepreneurial Financing
Sarah Thébaud, Amanda J. Sharkey Sociological Science, January 6, 2016 DOI 10.15195/v3.a1 Abstract Prior work finds mixed evidence of gender bias in lenders’ willingness to approve loans to entrepreneurs during normal macroeconomic conditions
Masculinity and the Stalled Revolution: How Gender Ideologies and Norms Shape Young Men’s Responses to Work–Family Policies
Extant research suggests that supportive work-family policies promote gender equality in the workplace and in the household. Yet, evidence indicates that these policies generally have stronger effects on women's preferences and behaviors than men's. In this article, we draw on survey-experimental data to examine how young, unmarried men's gender ideologies and perceptions of normative masculinity may moderate the effect of supportive work-family …
Business as Plan B: Institutional Foundations of Gender Inequality in Entrepreneurship across 24 Industrialized Countries
This article develops and empirically evaluates an institutional theory of gender inequalities in business start-up, ownership, and growth orientation. I argue that in contexts in which institutional arrangements such as paid leave, subsidized childcare, and part-time employment opportunities mitigate work–family conflict, women are less likely to opt for business ownership as a fallback employment strategy. As a result, women in these contexts m…
Status Beliefs and the Spirit of Capitalism: Accounting for Gender Biases in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
In this article, I develop and empirically test the theoretical argument that widely shared cultural beliefs about men's and women's abilities in entrepreneurship (i.e., “gender status beliefs”) systematically influence the social interactions during which an entrepreneur, particularly an innovative entrepreneur, seeks support from potential stakeholders for his or her new organization. To evaluate this argument, I conducted three experimental st…
Can We Finish the Revolution? Gender, Work-Family Ideals, and Institutional Constraint
Why has progress toward gender equality in the workplace and at home stalled in recent decades? A growing body of scholarship suggests that persistently gendered workplace norms and policies limit men's and women's ability to create gender egalitarian relationships at home. In this article, we build on and extend prior research by examining the extent to which institutional constraints, including workplace policies, affect young, unmarried men's …
Gender and Entrepreneurship as a Career Choice: Do Self-assessments of Ability Matter
The gender gap in entrepreneurship has typically been understood through women’s structural disadvantages in acquiring the resources relevant for successful business ownership. This study builds on resource-based approaches to investigate how cultural beliefs about gender influence the process by which individuals initially come to identify entrepreneurship as a viable labor-market option. Drawing on status characteristics theory, this study eval…
Masculinity, Bargaining, and Breadwinning: Understanding Men’s Housework in the Cultural Context of Paid Work
This research uses data from 18 countries to investigate cross-national differences in the effect that men's income relative to their spouses has on their involvement in housework. The author hypothesizes that gender expectations will be more salient in men's household bargaining in contexts where the traditionally masculine and breadwinning-related activities of paid work and earning income are highly valued. Results from analyses of Internation…
Labor Markets, Breadwinning, and Beliefs: How Economic Context Shapes Men's Gender Ideology
Abundant research has found that men's economic status shapes their gender ideology such that men who are breadwinners are less likely to endorse egalitarian ideology than men in nontraditional arrangements. This article investigates how the association between men's breadwinning status and gender ideology is influenced by the institutional arrangements of different types of labor markets. Rigid labor markets support men's ability to be breadwinn…
Fighting for Time: Shifting Boundaries of Work and Social Life Edited by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Arne L. Kalleberg Russell Sage Foundation, 2004. 354 pages. $39.95 (cloth)
Journal Article Fighting for Time: Shifting Boundaries of Work and Social Life Edited by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Arne L. Kalleberg Russell Sage Foundation, 2004. 354 pages. $39.95 (cloth) Get access Sarah Thébaud, Sarah Thébaud Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kim A. Weeden Kim A. Weeden Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social F…
Can We Finish the Revolution? Gender, Work-Family Ideals, and Institutional Constraint
Why has progress toward gender equality in the workplace and at home stalled in recent decades? A growing body of scholarship suggests that persistently gendered workplace norms and policies limit men's and women's ability to create gender egalitarian relationships at home. In this article, we build on and extend prior research by examining the extent to which institutional constraints, including workplace policies, affect young, unmarried men's …
Masculinity, Bargaining, and Breadwinning: Understanding Men’s Housework in the Cultural Context of Paid Work
This research uses data from 18 countries to investigate cross-national differences in the effect that men's income relative to their spouses has on their involvement in housework. The author hypothesizes that gender expectations will be more salient in men's household bargaining in contexts where the traditionally masculine and breadwinning-related activities of paid work and earning income are highly valued. Results from analyses of Internation…
Segregation, Stereotypes, and STEM
Scientific, technical, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) occupations are strongholds of gender segregation in the contemporary United States. While many Americans regard this segregation as natural and inevitable, closer examination reveals a great deal of variability in the gendering of STEM fields across time, space, and demographic groups. This article assesses how different theoretical accounts accord with the available evidence on the gen…
Good Housekeeping, Great Expectations: Gender and Housework Norms
Gender remains a key predictor of housework in modern society. However, previous studies have been relatively limited in their ability to adjudicate between possible mechanisms operating at the individual and social-interactional level that may cause this relationship. To address this gap, we employ a novel experimental design in which respondents view and evaluate photos of a relatively clean or messy room, which is ostensibly occupied by either…
Labor Markets, Breadwinning, and Beliefs: How Economic Context Shapes Men's Gender Ideology
Abundant research has found that men's economic status shapes their gender ideology such that men who are breadwinners are less likely to endorse egalitarian ideology than men in nontraditional arrangements. This article investigates how the association between men's breadwinning status and gender ideology is influenced by the institutional arrangements of different types of labor markets. Rigid labor markets support men's ability to be breadwinn…
Masculinity and the Stalled Revolution: How Gender Ideologies and Norms Shape Young Men’s Responses to Work–Family Policies
Extant research suggests that supportive work-family policies promote gender equality in the workplace and in the household. Yet, evidence indicates that these policies generally have stronger effects on women's preferences and behaviors than men's. In this article, we draw on survey-experimental data to examine how young, unmarried men's gender ideologies and perceptions of normative masculinity may moderate the effect of supportive work-family …
Gender in the Elite
Research on elites experienced a resurgence in sociology over a decade ago, but this work was largely gender neutral. Recently, a body of work on elite women and gender dynamics in elite families emerged and is growing rapidly. We propose here that gendered processes are critical for understanding the reproduction of elite privilege and inequality and highlight three subjects that dominate contemporary literature in this area. First, we address w…
The Effects of Gendered Occupational Roles on Men's and Women's Workplace Authority: Evidence from Microfinance
The gendering of occupational roles affects a variety of outcomes for workers and organizations. We examine how the gender of an initial role occupant influences the authority enjoyed by individuals who subsequently fill that role. We use data from a microfinance bank in Central America to examine how working initially with a male or female loan manager shapes borrowers' compliance with future managers' directives. First, we show that borrowers o…
Gender and Entrepreneurship as a Career Choice: Do Self-assessments of Ability Matter
The gender gap in entrepreneurship has typically been understood through women’s structural disadvantages in acquiring the resources relevant for successful business ownership. This study builds on resource-based approaches to investigate how cultural beliefs about gender influence the process by which individuals initially come to identify entrepreneurship as a viable labor-market option. Drawing on status characteristics theory, this study eval…
The Specter of Motherhood: Culture and the Production of Gendered Career Aspirations in Science and Engineering
Why are young women less likely than young men to persist in academic science and engineering? Drawing on 57 in-depth interviews with PhD students and postdoctoral scholars in the United States, we describe how, in academic science and engineering, motherhood is constructed in opposition to professional legitimacy, and as a subject of fear, repudiation, and public controversy. We call this the 'specter of motherhood.' This specter disadvantages y…
One step forward? Advances and setbacks on the path toward gender equality in families and work
Men and women increasingly express egalitarian preferences for organizing family life, but workplace norms and practices are still based on relatively traditional assumptions about the gender division of labor in families. In this article, we unpack this discordant feature of the cultural landscape with recent sociological research on gender, work, and family. We begin by discussing the growing body of evidence on preferences for gender–egalitari…
Degrees of Difference: Gender Segregation of U.S. Doctorates by Field and Program Prestige
Women earn nearly half of doctoral degrees in research fields, yet doctoral education in the United States remains deeply segregated by gender. We argue that in addition to the oft-noted segregation of men and women by field of study, men and women may also be segregated across programs that differ in their prestige. Using data on all doctorates awarded in the United States from 2003 to 2014, field-specific program rankings, and field-level measu…
When Do Work-Family Policies Work? Unpacking the Effects of Stigma and Financial Costs for Men and Women
Work-family policies-such as parental leave and flextime-can help to facilitate gender equality in workplaces and in families. But policy use is typically low, varies significantly from one workplace to another, and is often more prevalent among women than men. Extant research suggests that flexibility stigma-workplace norms that penalize workers for utilizing policies that facilitate non-work demands-as well as the financial costs associated wit…
Unequal Hard Times: The Influence of the Great Recession on Gender Bias in Entrepreneurial Financing
Sarah Thébaud, Amanda J. Sharkey Sociological Science, January 6, 2016 DOI 10.15195/v3.a1 Abstract Prior work finds mixed evidence of gender bias in lenders’ willingness to approve loans to entrepreneurs during normal macroeconomic conditions
Understanding Gender Disparities in Caregiving, Stress, and Perceptions of Institutional Support among Faculty during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The loss of the care infrastructure that occurred during the COVID-19 crisis exposed society’s continued reliance on women and mothers as default caregivers. But less is known about how this crisis produced gendered mental health outcomes, especially in occupations characterized by intensive work cultures such as academia. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative responses from a May 2021 campus-wide survey of faculty at a large research universit…
Fighting for Time: Shifting Boundaries of Work and Social Life Edited by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Arne L. Kalleberg Russell Sage Foundation, 2004. 354 pages. $39.95 (cloth)
Journal Article Fighting for Time: Shifting Boundaries of Work and Social Life Edited by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Arne L. Kalleberg Russell Sage Foundation, 2004. 354 pages. $39.95 (cloth) Get access Sarah Thébaud, Sarah Thébaud Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kim A. Weeden Kim A. Weeden Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social F…
Labor Markets, Breadwinning, and Beliefs: How Economic Context Shapes Men's Gender Ideology
Abundant research has found that men's economic status shapes their gender ideology such that men who are breadwinners are less likely to endorse egalitarian ideology than men in nontraditional arrangements. This article investigates how the association between men's breadwinning status and gender ideology is influenced by the institutional arrangements of different types of labor markets. Rigid labor markets support men's ability to be breadwinn…
Gender and Entrepreneurship as a Career Choice: Do Self-assessments of Ability Matter
The gender gap in entrepreneurship has typically been understood through women’s structural disadvantages in acquiring the resources relevant for successful business ownership. This study builds on resource-based approaches to investigate how cultural beliefs about gender influence the process by which individuals initially come to identify entrepreneurship as a viable labor-market option. Drawing on status characteristics theory, this study eval…
Masculinity, Bargaining, and Breadwinning: Understanding Men’s Housework in the Cultural Context of Paid Work
This research uses data from 18 countries to investigate cross-national differences in the effect that men's income relative to their spouses has on their involvement in housework. The author hypothesizes that gender expectations will be more salient in men's household bargaining in contexts where the traditionally masculine and breadwinning-related activities of paid work and earning income are highly valued. Results from analyses of Internation…
Business as Plan B: Institutional Foundations of Gender Inequality in Entrepreneurship across 24 Industrialized Countries
This article develops and empirically evaluates an institutional theory of gender inequalities in business start-up, ownership, and growth orientation. I argue that in contexts in which institutional arrangements such as paid leave, subsidized childcare, and part-time employment opportunities mitigate work–family conflict, women are less likely to opt for business ownership as a fallback employment strategy. As a result, women in these contexts m…
Status Beliefs and the Spirit of Capitalism: Accounting for Gender Biases in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
In this article, I develop and empirically test the theoretical argument that widely shared cultural beliefs about men's and women's abilities in entrepreneurship (i.e., “gender status beliefs”) systematically influence the social interactions during which an entrepreneur, particularly an innovative entrepreneur, seeks support from potential stakeholders for his or her new organization. To evaluate this argument, I conducted three experimental st…
Can We Finish the Revolution? Gender, Work-Family Ideals, and Institutional Constraint
Why has progress toward gender equality in the workplace and at home stalled in recent decades? A growing body of scholarship suggests that persistently gendered workplace norms and policies limit men's and women's ability to create gender egalitarian relationships at home. In this article, we build on and extend prior research by examining the extent to which institutional constraints, including workplace policies, affect young, unmarried men's …
Unequal Hard Times: The Influence of the Great Recession on Gender Bias in Entrepreneurial Financing
Sarah Thébaud, Amanda J. Sharkey Sociological Science, January 6, 2016 DOI 10.15195/v3.a1 Abstract Prior work finds mixed evidence of gender bias in lenders’ willingness to approve loans to entrepreneurs during normal macroeconomic conditions
Masculinity and the Stalled Revolution: How Gender Ideologies and Norms Shape Young Men’s Responses to Work–Family Policies
Extant research suggests that supportive work-family policies promote gender equality in the workplace and in the household. Yet, evidence indicates that these policies generally have stronger effects on women's preferences and behaviors than men's. In this article, we draw on survey-experimental data to examine how young, unmarried men's gender ideologies and perceptions of normative masculinity may moderate the effect of supportive work-family …
When Beauty Doesn't Pay: Gender and Beauty Biases in a Peer-to-Peer Loan Market
We analyzed a random sample of individual listings from an online market for peer-to-peer lending to examine the effects of gender and attractiveness on receiving loans. In this setting, we tested the theoretical argument that women are penalized for violating beliefs about women's social roles when they seek loans for male-typed endeavors, such as running a business. Consistent with this theory, female borrowers seeking loans for business purpos…
Degrees of Difference: Gender Segregation of U.S. Doctorates by Field and Program Prestige
Women earn nearly half of doctoral degrees in research fields, yet doctoral education in the United States remains deeply segregated by gender. We argue that in addition to the oft-noted segregation of men and women by field of study, men and women may also be segregated across programs that differ in their prestige. Using data on all doctorates awarded in the United States from 2003 to 2014, field-specific program rankings, and field-level measu…
The Effects of Gendered Occupational Roles on Men's and Women's Workplace Authority: Evidence from Microfinance
The gendering of occupational roles affects a variety of outcomes for workers and organizations. We examine how the gender of an initial role occupant influences the authority enjoyed by individuals who subsequently fill that role. We use data from a microfinance bank in Central America to examine how working initially with a male or female loan manager shapes borrowers' compliance with future managers' directives. First, we show that borrowers o…
Segregation, Stereotypes, and STEM
Scientific, technical, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) occupations are strongholds of gender segregation in the contemporary United States. While many Americans regard this segregation as natural and inevitable, closer examination reveals a great deal of variability in the gendering of STEM fields across time, space, and demographic groups. This article assesses how different theoretical accounts accord with the available evidence on the gen…
One step forward? Advances and setbacks on the path toward gender equality in families and work
Men and women increasingly express egalitarian preferences for organizing family life, but workplace norms and practices are still based on relatively traditional assumptions about the gender division of labor in families. In this article, we unpack this discordant feature of the cultural landscape with recent sociological research on gender, work, and family. We begin by discussing the growing body of evidence on preferences for gender–egalitari…
The Specter of Motherhood: Culture and the Production of Gendered Career Aspirations in Science and Engineering
Why are young women less likely than young men to persist in academic science and engineering? Drawing on 57 in-depth interviews with PhD students and postdoctoral scholars in the United States, we describe how, in academic science and engineering, motherhood is constructed in opposition to professional legitimacy, and as a subject of fear, repudiation, and public controversy. We call this the 'specter of motherhood.' This specter disadvantages y…
Good Housekeeping, Great Expectations: Gender and Housework Norms
Gender remains a key predictor of housework in modern society. However, previous studies have been relatively limited in their ability to adjudicate between possible mechanisms operating at the individual and social-interactional level that may cause this relationship. To address this gap, we employ a novel experimental design in which respondents view and evaluate photos of a relatively clean or messy room, which is ostensibly occupied by either…
When Do Work-Family Policies Work? Unpacking the Effects of Stigma and Financial Costs for Men and Women
Work-family policies-such as parental leave and flextime-can help to facilitate gender equality in workplaces and in families. But policy use is typically low, varies significantly from one workplace to another, and is often more prevalent among women than men. Extant research suggests that flexibility stigma-workplace norms that penalize workers for utilizing policies that facilitate non-work demands-as well as the financial costs associated wit…
Gender in the Elite
Research on elites experienced a resurgence in sociology over a decade ago, but this work was largely gender neutral. Recently, a body of work on elite women and gender dynamics in elite families emerged and is growing rapidly. We propose here that gendered processes are critical for understanding the reproduction of elite privilege and inequality and highlight three subjects that dominate contemporary literature in this area. First, we address w…
Separate Spheres: The Gender Division of Labor in the Financial Elite
In recent decades, the financial elite have seen their economic resources grow significantly, while the income and wealth of other households have stagnated. The financial elite includes couples who are super-rich (top one percent), rich (the 90th–99th percentile), and upper-middle class (the 80th–89th percentile). Gendered work–family arrangements in top economic groups may contribute to inequality—particularly to wealth accumulation among the e…
Understanding Gender Disparities in Caregiving, Stress, and Perceptions of Institutional Support among Faculty during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The loss of the care infrastructure that occurred during the COVID-19 crisis exposed society’s continued reliance on women and mothers as default caregivers. But less is known about how this crisis produced gendered mental health outcomes, especially in occupations characterized by intensive work cultures such as academia. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative responses from a May 2021 campus-wide survey of faculty at a large research universit…
Gender Diversity and Inequality (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (12 works) · Demographic economics (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (5 works)