Becky
Pettit
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Associate
Professor of Sociology
University of Washington
318
Condon Hall
Seattle, WA
98195-3340
bpettit@u.washington.edu
Phone: 206-616-1173
Fax: 206-543-2516
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Becky Pettit is an associate
professor of sociology at the University
of Washington. Her
general areas of interest include demography, economic sociology, and
inequality. Her research examines
demographic processes and social inequality.
Past and present projects investigate the role of institutional factors
in explaining differential labor market opportunities and aggregate patterns of
inequality. Past research has examined
race and class inequality in the likelihood of spending time in prison and the
implications of the growth of the American penal population on the labor market
opportunities and experiences of low-skill men in the United States. Current research explores how gender
inequality in the workplace is institutionalized by state and market policies
and practices that regulate, routinize and reinforce
gender differences in involvement in the paid labor force, occupation, and pay
especially in relation to family obligations.
She is also engaged in a project examining the demographic and health
implications of the recent rise in the American penal population.
Pettit has been the
recipient of many honors and awards. Her
paper “Black-White Wage Inequality, Employment Rates, and Incarceration” (with
Bruce Western of Harvard
University) received the
James Short paper award from the American Sociological Association Crime, Law,
and Deviance Section. Another paper
“Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course:
Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration” (with Western) received
Honorable Mention from the American Sociological Association Sociology of Law
Section Article Prize Committee. And, a
paper with former graduate student Jennifer Hook (now an assistant professor at
Pennsylvania State University)
was a finalist for the 2006 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. Pettit has been a visiting scholar at the
Russell Sage Foundation, and is the recipient of a mentored research
development award (K01) from the National Institutes of Health (NICHD) for her
work on “Institutionalizing Inequality:
Gender, Work and Family”
Professor
Pettit teaches courses on social inequality and stratification, sociology of
the family, and statistics. She holds a
Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University
and a B.A. in sociology from University of California
at Berkeley.
Social Inequality
Undergraduate Seminar in Social Inequality (Sociology 460A)
Undergraduate Seminar
in Gender and Social Inequality (Sociology 460B)
Graduate Seminar in Stratification and Social Inequality
(Sociology 518)
Sociology of the Family (Sociology 352)
Statistics
Social Statistics (Sociology 504)
Applied Regression Analysis (Sociology 506)
Incarceration and Inequality
Black-White Wage Inequality,
Employment Rates, and Incarceration
Mass Imprisonment and the Life
Course: Race and Class Inequality in
U.S. Incarceration
Gender Inequality in the Labor Market
The Structure
of Women's Employment in Comparative Perspective.