Profile
Sheryl Skaggs is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at The University of Texas at Dallas.
Her most recent research focuses on the processes of change in internal employment structures related to gender and racial/ethnic inequality. This area of research is particularly important for understanding how employment barriers to less powerful groups—whether formal or informal—can be eradicated both within and across workplaces.
Dr. Skaggs’ other projects include examination of gender and racial/ethnic inequalities in promotions and recruitment for non-professional, professional and managerial positions.
Her work has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, Work and Occupations, Research in Political Sociology and Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.
Professional Organizations
- American Sociological Association
- Southern Sociological Society
Courses
- Undergraduate
- Work and Occupations
- Gender and Work
- Class, Status, and Power
- Work and Occupations
- Graduate
- Socio-Economic Theories
Publications
Skaggs, Sheryl. 2005. “Making Change in Female Supermarket Managerial Representation: Examining the Role of Legal, Institutional, and Political Environments.” Research in Political Sociology, 14.
Skaggs, Sheryl and Nancy DiTomaso. 2004. “Understanding the Effects of Workforce Diversity on Employment Outcomes: A Multidisciplinary and Comprehensive Framework.” Pp. 279-306 in Research in the Sociology of Work, edited by Nancy DiTomaso and Corinne Post. New York: Elsevier.
Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald and Sheryl Skaggs. 2002. “Sex Segregation, Labor Processes, Organizations and Gender Earnings Inequality.” American Journal of Sociology
108:102-28.
Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald and Sheryl Skaggs. 2001. “Does Bureaucratization Create Gender Segregated Employment?” Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologies und Sozialpsychologie
41: 308-31.
Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald and Sheryl Skaggs. 1999. “An Establishment Level Test of the Statistical Discrimination Hypothesis.” Work and Occupations 26:420-43.
Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald and Sheryl Skaggs. 1999. “Degendered Jobs? Organizational Processes and Gender Segregated Employment.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 17:139-72.
Dunn, Dana and Sheryl Skaggs. 1999. “Gender and Paid Work in Industrial Nations.”
Pp. 321-342 in Handbook of the Sociology of Gender, edited by Janet Saltzman Chafetz. New
York: Springer Publishing.
- Updated: October 17, 2006
