Spark Talk: “Is the Gender Wage Gap Really a Motherhood Wage Gap?” by Youngjoo Cha (October 25th, 2024)
Oct 25, 2024
10:30AM to 11:30AM
Date/Time
Date(s) - 25/10/2024
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Description: Is the gender wage gap really a motherhood wage gap in disguise? In this talk, I will present our new paper that shows family wage gaps (motherhood wage penalty, fatherhood wage premium, marriage premium/penalty) are strongly associated with the gender wage gap, but with important caveats.
Bio: Youngjoo Cha is Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University-Bloomington and Yonsei University. Her current research investigates how the trend toward long work hours and the normative forces behind them reinforce gender inequality and what organizational and institutional conditions help to change this trend; the role of stereotypes for the labor market outcomes of Asian-origin individuals in the U.S.; and how the pandemic has changed employees’ and employers’ perspectives on work.