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Amy S. Wharton Gender and Work

Amy S. Wharton

Dr. Amy S. Wharton is Academic Director and Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Sociology at WSU Vancouver.  She is joined the WSU Pullman faculty in 1987 and moved to WSU Vancouver in 2000. After receiving her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Oregon in 1984, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in organizational research at Stanford University.  Dr. Wharton’s research on gender inequality, the sociology of work, and work-family policies has been published in the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, and Work & Occupations, as well as many other peer-reviewed journals and edited books.  Dr. Wharton is the editor of Working in America: Continuity, Conflict, and Change, the author of The Sociology of Gender: An Introduction to Theory and Research, and co-author of The Sociology of Work:  Structures and Inequalities.  Her current research examines gender, leadership, and organizational change in the academic workplace. Dr. Wharton was a co-PI on the WSU NSF ADVANCE grant (2009-2014) and remains actively involved in the broader ADVANCE community, serving on an NSF ADVANCE review panel, as a member of several external advisory boards for ADVANCE projects, and as presenter at national conferences.   Her many elected positions in professional organizations include service as Chair of the Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA) and Chair of the ASA section on Sex and Gender.   She has served as a journal editor and member of multiple editorial boards. At WSU, Dr. Wharton was the recipient of the 2013 Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for Leadership and received the Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence from WSU Vancouver in 2007.