Gender / Inequalities Workshop

The UCSD Department of Sociology Gender/ Inequalities Workshop is a supportive forum for our graduate students and faculty as well as faculty visitors to present research on social inequalities, including class, race/ethnicity, immigration/citizenship, gender, and sexuality.  

2008-09 Workshop Schedule

12:30pm-1:50pm

in Social Science Building (SSB) 101

FALL

2008

Tu

Oct. 21

Elizabeth Gorman (UVA)

“Hierarchical Rank and Women's Organizational Mobility:  Glass Ceilings in Corporate Law Firms”

         

WINTER

2009

Tu

Jan. 13

April Huff (UCSD)

Scientific Evidence and Women's Health Activism in the Contemporary Anti-Abortion Movement

* Held In

SSB 107

Th

Feb. 19

Raquel Jacob –Almeida (UCSD)

A Boy Crisis?  The Politics of Representing Boys

Th

Mar. 5

Kim Voss (UC Berkeley)

The Local in the Global: Rethinking Social Movements in the New Millennium

(Author of Hard Work:  Remaking the Labor Movement with Rick Fantasia)

         

SPRING

2009

Th

Apr. 9

Tom Waidzunas (UCSD)

Drawing the Straight Line: Hierarchies of Evidence across Social Worlds in Sexual Reorientation Therapy Debates.

Th

May 21

Mike Messner (USC)

It’s All For the Kids:  Gender, Families, and Youth Sports

Tu

June 2

Penny Edgell (UMN)

Racial differences in work-family strain and instability

Professor Edgell will also meet informally with colleagues and students on her new project on religion, science, law, and conservative social movements.