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Paula England

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Paula England
Born (1949-12-04) December 4, 1949 (age 75)
Alma mater
Known forGender inequality in the labour market
AwardsAmerican Sociological Association for Distinguished Career in Gender Scholarship
Scientific career
FieldsSociology
Doctoral advisor

Paula S. England (born 4 December 1949),[1] is an American sociologist and Dean of Social Science at New York University Abu Dhabi. Her research has focused on gender inequality in the labor market, the family, and sexuality. She has also studied class differences in contraception and nonmarital births.

Education

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England got a BA in Sociology and Psychology from Whitman College in the year 1971, an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago in 1972, and a PhD in 1975, also from the University of Chicago.[2]

Work

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England has served as a professor at the University of Texas-Dallas, University of Arizona, University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, Stanford University, New York University, and New York University Abu Dhabi. [3] She served as president of the American Sociological Association from August 2014 to August 2015.

England's research showed that both men and women earn less if they work in a predominantly female occupation, even after adjusting for differences between occupations in the skill and education they require.[4][5][6] She called this a type of sex discrimination distinct from lack of equal pay for equal work in the same job, and distinct from the hiring discrimination against women trying to enter jobs. She argued that employers—consciously or unconsciously—take the sex composition of jobs into account when they set pay levels, acting as if jobs done by women can't be worth much. She argued that this bias reflects a general cultural devaluation of women and roles associated with women, and that institutional inertia cements this bias into wage structures.[7] She also showed that when occupations feminize, their pay goes down.[8]

England has also studied how gender norms structure the college hookup culture, which features nonrelational sex.[9][10]

Awards

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In 1999 the American Sociological Association recognized her with the Jessie Bernard Award for Distinguished Scholarship on Gender.[11] In 2010 the American Sociological Association's Section on Sociology of the Family recognized her with a Distinguished Career Award.[12] In 2009 she was elected the Frances Perkins Fellow by the American Academy of Political and Social Science. In 2015 the Population Association of America awarded her the Harriet Presser award for research on gender and demography. In 2018 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[13]

Selected bibliography

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Books

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  • England, Paula; Farkas, George (1986). Households, Employment, and Gender: A Social, Economic, and Demographic view. New York: Aldine Publishing Co. ISBN 978-0-202-30323-9.
  • England, Paula (1992). Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. ISBN 978-0-202-30349-9.

Chapters in books

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  • England, Paula (1993). "The separative self: androcentric bias in neoclassical assumptions". In Nelson, Julie A.; Ferber, Marianne (eds.). Beyond economic man feminist theory and economics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 37–53. ISBN 978-0-226-24208-8.
  • England, Paula (1995). "A feminist critique of rational-choice theories: implications for sociology". In Humphries, Jane (ed.). Gender and economics. Aldershot, England Brookfield, Vermont, USA: Edward Elgar. pp. 42–58. ISBN 978-1-85278-843-8.
  • England, Paula (1995). "The failure of human capital theory to explain occupational sex segregation". In Humphries, Jane (ed.). Gender and economics. Aldershot, England Brookfield, Vermont, USA: Edward Elgar. pp. 361–384. ISBN 978-1-85278-843-8.
  • England, Paula; Budig, Michelle J. (1998). "Gary Becker on the family: his genius, impact, and blind spots". In Clawson, Dan (ed.). Required reading: sociology's most influential books. Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press. pp. 99–111. ISBN 978-1-55849-153-3.
  • England, Paula (2003). "Separative and soluble selves: dichotomous thinking in economics". In Nelson, Julie A.; Ferber, Marianne (eds.). Feminist economics today: beyond economic man. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 33–59. ISBN 978-0-226-24207-1.
  • England, Paula (2006). "Toward gender equality: progress and bottlenecks". In Blau, Francine D.; Brinton, Mary C.; Grusky, David B. (eds.). The declining significance of gender?. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. pp. 245–264. ISBN 978-0-87154-370-7.

Articles

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References

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  1. ^ "England, Paula". Library of Congress. Retrieved August 3, 2014. data sheet (Paula S. England; b. 12/4/49)
  2. ^ "Paula England CV" (PDF). Retrieved February 10, 2024.
  3. ^ "CURRICULUM VITAE - PAULA ENGLAND". Archived from the original on July 7, 2015. Retrieved May 29, 2015.
  4. ^ Kilbourne, Barbara; England, Paula; Farkas, George; Beron, Kurt; Weir, Dorothea (November 1994). "Return to skills, compensating differentials, and gender bias: effects of occupational characteristics on the wages of white women and men". American Journal of Sociology. 100 (3): 689–719. doi:10.1086/230578. S2CID 145799264.
  5. ^ England, Paula; Farkas, George; Kilbourne, Barbara; Dou, Thomas (August 1988). "Explaining occupational sex segregation and wages: findings from a model with fixed effects". American Sociological Review. 53 (4): 544–558. doi:10.2307/2095848. JSTOR 2095848.
  6. ^ England, Paula (1992). Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. ISBN 978-0-202-30349-9.
  7. ^ Hartmann, Heidi (June 1, 2010). "Paula England: Why female-dominated jobs systematically pay less". AAPSS news. American Academy of Political and Social Science. Archived from the original on August 6, 2016. Retrieved May 29, 2015.
  8. ^ Levanon, Asaf; England, Paula; Allison, Paul (December 2009). "Occupational feminization and pay: assessing casual dynamics using 1950–2000 census data". Social Forces. 88 (2): 865–892. doi:10.1353/sof.0.0264. S2CID 154788436.
  9. ^ Armstrong, Elizabeth; England, Paula; Fogarty, Alison (June 2012). "Accounting for women's orgasm and sexual enjoyment in college hookups and relationships". American Sociological Review. 77 (3): 435–462. doi:10.1177/0003122412445802. S2CID 146476877.
  10. ^ Armstrong, Elizabeth A.; Hamilton, Laura; England, Paula (August 2010). "Is hooking up bad for young women?". Contexts. 9 (3): 22–27. doi:10.1525/ctx.2010.9.3.22. Text.
  11. ^ "Paula England Award Statement". American Sociological Association. June 3, 2009.
  12. ^ "Sociology of the Family's Distinguished Career Award". American Sociological Association. October 29, 2010.
  13. ^ "National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected". National Academy of Sciences.
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