UTD

Sociology

Much of my research falls within the area of workplace inequality including gender and racial/ethnic disparities in promotions and authority, earnings, and recruitment as well as job- and occupational-level segregation across organizations and industries. 

My most recent research examines the direct impact of racial discrimination lawsuits and indirect influences of legal, political, labor and social pressures on workplace changes in African American managerial representation.  I am also engaged in several other projects including one that investigates the influence of female board of directors on women’s managerial representation in Texas Fortune 1000 companies.  A second project, with Julie Kmec, focuses on the impact of managerial diversity on hospital employment opportunities for women and racial/ethnic minorities.

Recent publications

Sheryl Skaggs. 2008. "Producing Change or Bagging Opportunity? The Effects of Discrimination Litigation on Women in Supermarket Management." American Journal of Sociology 113:1148-83.

Kmec, Julie A. and Sheryl Skaggs. Forthcoming. "Organizational Variation in Formal Equal Employment Opportunity Structures." Sociological Forum.

I regularly teach sociology undergraduate courses in Work and Occupations, Class, Status and Power, Gender and Work, and Social Problems.  In addition, I teach a graduate course entitled Socio-Economic Theories which is required for both the Masters Degree in Applied Sociology and the public policy track for the Doctorate in Public Policy and Political Economy. 

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