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Irene Padavic

Irene Padavic


Contact Information:

Office: Bellamy 526
Phone: 644-6416
Fax: 644-6208
Email: ipadavic@fsu.edu

Areas of Specialization:

Research:

  • Gender and Organizations
  • Workplace Inequality
  • Family

Teaching:

  • Undergraduate:
    • Family Problems and Social Change
    • Social Problems
    • Gender and Work
    • Ethnographies of Work
  • Graduate:
    • Gender and Race in Organizations
    • Family-Work Linkages
    • Gender and Work
    • Comparative Family

Education and Recent Professional Experience:

  • Ph.D., Sociology, University of Michigan, 1987
  • M.A., Sociology, University of Michigan, 1984
  • A.B., Sociology and Religion, Smith College, 1979

Selected Papers and Publications:

  • Anastasia Prokos, Irene Padavic, and S. Ashley Schmidt. 2010. “Nonstandard Work Arrangements among Women and Men Scientists and Engineers” Sex Roles. READ
  • Robin Ely and Irene Padavic. 2007. A Feminist Analysis of Organizational Research on Sex Differences. Academy of Management Review 32(4): 1121-1143. READ
  • Irene Padavic. 2005. Laboring Under Uncertainty: Identity Renegotiation among Contingent Workers. Symbolic Interaction 28 (1): 111-134. READ
  • Anastasia Prokos and Irene Padavic. 2005. An Examination of Competing Explanations for the Pay Gap Among Scientists and Engineers. Gender & Society 19(4): 523-543. READ
  • Irene Padavic and Barbara Reskin. 2002. Women and Men at Work, Second edition. Thousand Oaks CA: Pine Forge Press.
  • Anastasia Prokos and Irene Padavic. 2002. "'There Oughtta Be a Law Against Bitches': Masculinity Lessons in Police Academy Training." Gender, Work, and Organization 9 (4) 438-58. READ
  • Alexandra Berkowitz and Irene Padavic. “Getting a Man or Getting Ahead: A Comparison of White and Black Sororities.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 27:530-557. READ
  • Irene Padavic. 1993. “Agricultural Restructuring and the Spatial Dynamics of U.S. Women's Employment in the 1970s." Rural Sociology 58:210-232. READ
  • Irene Padavic. 1991. "The Re-Creation of Gender in a Male Workplace." Symbolic Interaction 14:279-294 READ

Honors:

  • Katherine Jocher -- Belle Boone Beard Award for Gender Scholarship, Southern Sociological Society, 2010
  • Sociology Graduate Student Mentoring Award, 2009
  • FSU Graduate Faculty Mentor Award 2007
  • Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, 2000-01

Vitae:

Curriculum Vitae