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Heather Haveman - Professor, Sociology, Sociology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

I am analyzing employee descriptions (reviews) of their firms from Glassdoor.com. We are measuring the gender slant of employing organizations’ conceptions of what work means, who workers are, and who has power. Such gendered conceptions can erect barriers to equality by framing ideal workers, work activities, and company goals as...

Heather Haveman - Professor, Sociology, Sociology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

I am analyzing a longitudinal database of articles published in the Washington Post newspaper from 1977 to 2024. The primary goal is to understand how gender roles are portrayed in news media. To do this, we are using several natural-language-processing techniques. We are building a dictionary of gender...