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Paula England, Silver Professor of Sociology: Director of Graduate Studies, New York University
Title: Do Highly Paid, Highly Skilled Women Experience the Largest Motherhood Penalty?
Paula England is Silver Professor of Sociology at NYU New York. One branch of England’s research concerns gender inequality at work and at home; she has written on the sex gap in pay, occupational segregation, how couples divide housework, and the wage penalty for motherhood. Her more recent work deals with changing family patterns in the U.S. and how they differ by social class. She studies the higher rates of unintended births among disadvantaged single young adults. She is also studying changes in sexual behavior among youth and young adults.
England was President of the American Sociological Association in 2014-15, and was editor of the American Sociological Review in 1994-96.