Mary Blair-Loy, Associate Professor
and Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D. - University of Chicago, 1997

Areas of Specialization: Sociology of Gender, Culture, Inequality, Work and Organizations, Family.

Email Address: blair-loy@ucsd.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Office Location: 401 Social Science Building

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Biography:

Mary Blair-Loy has a B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and an M.Div. from Harvard University. She uses multiple methods to study gender, work, and family, with a focus on how human agency is constrained and enabled by social and cultural structures. She studies elite workers in demanding and compelling jobs. Her book, Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Executive Women (Harvard University Press), shows how the morally and emotionally salient cultural schemas of work devotion and family devotion help structure the institutions of the capitalist firm and the nuclear family in the U.S. and help shape women's actions. Competing Devotions won the 2005 William J. Goode Book Award, sponsored by the ASA Section on the Family.