Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
EXPERTISE
Gender inequality, social psychology, group processes, sociology of education
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Professor Correll's research is in the area of gender inequality and social psychology. In particular, she studies how cultural understandings about gender differentially influence the educational and career paths of men and women from both the supply and demand side. A recent paper explores how gender beliefs associated with mathematics differentially impact the extent to which men and women see themselves as mathematically competent, which impacts their persistence on paths leading to careers in science, math and engineering. Her most recent project on the motherhood penalty considers how stereotypic beliefs associated with motherhood impact the workplace evaluations and pay and hiring decisions of women when they give evidence of being a mother.
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Correll, Shelley J. 2004. "Constraints into preferences: gender, status and emerging career aspirations." American Sociological Review: 69: 93-113.
Correll, Shelley J. 2001. “Gender and the career choice process: the role of biased self-assessments." American Journal of Sociology:106 (6): 1691-1730.
Correll, Shelley J. and Stephen Benard. Forthcoming. "Biased estimators? Comparing status and statistical theories of discrimination." Advances in Group Processes: Social Psychology of the Workplace, edited by Shane R. Thye and Edward J. Lawler. Elsevier Science.
Correll, Shelley J. and Cecilia L. Ridgeway. 2003. “Expectation states theory.” Pages 29-51 in The Handbook of Social Psychology, John Delamater, editor. New York: Kluwer-Plenum Press.
Ridgeway, Cecilia L. and Shelley J. Correll. 2000. “Limiting gender inequality through interaction: the end(s) of gender.” Contemporary Sociology: 29 (1): 110-120. Special symposium on utopian visions.
Ridgeway, Cecilia L. and Shelley J. Correll. 2004. "Unpacking the gender system: A theoretical perspective on cultural beliefs and social relations." Gender & Society 18 (4): 510-531.
Ridgeway, Cecilia L. and Shelley J. Correll. 2004. “Motherhood as a status characteristic.” Journal of Social Issues 60(4): 683-700, special edition: “The maternal wall.”
