Inequalities

This research topic examines how demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, gender roles, and inequality structures shape intergenerational educational transmission, justice evaluations of earnings, and pro-social behaviors of people with disabilities. It also looks at the impact of equality legislation on LGBTQ people, the role of gender in risk-taking, and the factors that have led to social backsliding of middle-class groups.

• Intergenerational educational mobility is higher for 3+ generation Hispanic men in areas with a larger Hispanic population, and for 2nd generation Hispanic men in areas with a larger college-educated population.
• Specific aspects of equality legislation may be perceived as violent due to its dehumanizing impact on LGBTQ people.
• Gender roles can explain sex differences in risk-taking, and femininity and fear of negative evaluation are associated with less risky decisions in the social domain for women.
• Gender differences in university teaching evaluations are largely due to evaluation biases unrelated to any actual differences in class experience.
• Economic insecurity has been compensated by epistemic security, and identity politics has divided leftist/liberal groups while uniting right-wing populists.
• Gender bias in justice evaluations of earnings is linked to the inequality structure in which people are embedded.
• Occupations high in people orientation and verbal demands had a higher proportion of women, while occupations high in things orientation and numerical demands had a lower proportion.
• Power inequality between men and women in Igbo land is not consciously intended by all classes of agents.
• Men showed greater support for sexist attitudes than women, and there was no empirical evidence for the postulated link between sexist attitudes and traditional gender stereotypes.
• Researching racism in healthcare contexts is often denied by both institutions and individuals.
• People with disabilities preferred intra-group cooperation, while people without disabilities preferred inter-group cooperation.