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Kate Weisshaar is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. She previously held positions at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where she was also a faculty fellow at the Carolina Population Center.
Her research focuses on gender, race, and economic inequality, with emphasis on labor markets, organizations, and family-work dynamics. Key areas include gendered work-family arrangements, organizational evaluations, and the intersection of gender/race in hiring/wage outcomes. Methodologically, she employs quantitative, experimental, and qualitative approaches.
Her work highlights systemic barriers such as post-employment re-entry challenges, wage penalties from career gaps, and discriminatory practices in hiring under diversity pressures. Collaborations with scholars like Koji Chavez and Tania Hutt have advanced studies on software engineering and accounting sector disparities.
Notable contributions include analyzing pandemic-era hiring trends and uncovering how organizational diversity pressures can commodify equity efforts. Her research underscores the need for structural reforms to address persistent inequalities in workplaces.
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