Areas of Specialization: Social Inequality, Gender, Education, Work, International Comparative Sociology, Applied Quantitative Methodology

Phone: 858-534-2566
Office: 492 Social Science Building
E-mail Address: mcharles@ucsd.edu

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Professor Maria Charles received Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Sociology from Stanford University. Research and teaching interests include social inequality and sociology of gender, with special attention to cross-national differences in patterns and processes of social differentiation. Her coauthored book, Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men, received the Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship in 2005. Professor Charles' cross-national research on sex segregation by field of study, supported by the National Science Foundation, has been published in the American Sociological Review and other scholarly outlets. Two new projects explore (1) social, economic, and cultural consequences of rising income inequality in the United States during the last two decades of the twentieth century, and (2) cross-national and historical variability in cultural understandings of childhood and motherhood.


Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications:
Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men (with David Grusky, Stanford University Press, 2004 cloth edition, 2005 paperback). *Recipient of the 2005 Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship.

“Skill Profiles, Gender Ideology, and Sex Segregation: Structural and Cultural Constraints on Occupational Choice” in Social Politics 12:289-316, 2005).

“Equal but Separate? A Cross-National Study of Sex Segregation in Higher Education” (with Karen Bradley, in American Sociological Review 67:573-599, 2002).


Classes to be taught in 2007/08:

Fall 2007

Winter 2008
Sociology C139: Social Inequality: Class, Race, Gender (Undergraduate)
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Sociology G205: Quantitative Methods I (Graduate)
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Spring 2008
Sociology C148L: Inequality and Jobs (Undergraduate)
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Sociology G212: Social Stratification(Graduate)
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Other recent courses:
Sociology 196A Honors Seminar: Advanced Studies in Sociology (Undergraduate)
Sociology 196B Honors Seminar: Supervised Thesis Research (Undergraduate)
Sociology C139 Social Inequality: Class, Race, and Gender (Undergraduate)
Sociology G205 Quatitative Methods I (Graduate)
Sociology G212 Social Stratification (Graduate)
Sociology G206: Quantitative Methods II (Graduate)

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