Maria Charles

Professor, Department of Sociology

University of California, Santa Barbara

C.V.

 

Selected Recent Publications

Charles, Maria, Bridget Harr, Erin Cech and Alexandra Hendley. 2014. “Who Likes Math Where? Gender Differences in Eighth-graders’

       Attitudes Around the World.” International Studies in Sociology of Education 24:85-112. [pdf]

Charles, Maria and Jeffrey D. Lundy. 2013. “The Local Joneses: Household Consumption and Income Inequality In Large Metropolitan Areas.”

       Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 34:14-29. [pdf]

Charles, Maria. 2011. “A World of Difference: International Trends in Women’s Economic Status.” Annual Review of Sociology 37:355-72. [pdf]

Charles, Maria. 2011. “What Gender is Science?” Contexts 22-28 (Spring). [pdf]

Charles, Maria and Karen Bradley. 2009. “Indulging Our Gendered Selves? Sex Segregation by Field of Study in 44 Countries.” American Journal

       of Sociology 114:924-76. [pdf]

Charles, Maria. 2008. “Culture and Inequality: Identity, Ideology, and Difference in ‘Post-ascriptive Society’.” Annals of the American Academy of

       Political and Social Science 619:41-58. [pdf]

Charles, Maria and David B. Grusky. 2007. “Egalitarianism and Gender Inequality.” Pp. 327-42 in The Inequality Reader: Contemporary and

      Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and Gender, edited by David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelényi. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2007. [pdf]

Charles, Maria. 2005. “National Skill Regimes, Postindustrialism, and Sex Segregation.” Social Politics 12:289-316. [pdf]

Charles, Maria and David Grusky. 2004 (2005 in paperback). Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men. Stanford,

       CA: Stanford University Press.

Charles, Maria. 2003. “Deciphering Sex Segregation: Vertical and Horizontal Inequalities in Ten Countries.” Acta Sociologica 46:267-87. [pdf]

Charles, Maria and Karen Bradley. 2002. “Equal but Separate? A Cross-National Study of Sex Segregation in Higher Education.” American

      Sociological Review 67:573-599. [pdf]                                      

Charles, Maria, Marlis Buchmann, Susan Halebsky, Jeanne Powers, and Marisa Smith. 2001. “The Context of Women’s Market Careers: A

       Cross-National Study.” Work and Occupations 28:371-96. [pdf]

Grusky, David B. and Maria Charles. 1998. “The Past, Present, and Future of Sex Segregation Methodology.” Demography 35:497-504. [pdf]

Charles, Maria and David B. Grusky. 1995. "Models for Describing the Underlying Structure of Sex Segregation." American Journal of

       Sociology 100:931-71. [pdf]

Charles, Maria. 1992. "Cross-National Variation in Occupational Sex Segregation." American Sociological Review 57:483-502. [pdf]

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

  

      

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