Julie Kmec
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 2002
Areas of Research Interest:
Gender & Race/Ethnic Labor Market Inequality, Work Organizations, Workplace Diversity, Social Stratification.
Current Research Interests:
I am interested in how the practices of work organizations—mainly their diversity-oriented human resource practices—shape the work context. With collaborator, Beth Hirsh (Cornell University), I am exploring the connection between organizational human resource practices, formal complaints over discrimination, and race/sex segregation. I am also interested in studying how organizational practices shape worker’s experiences (i.e., pay, turnover, mobility). Another research interest of mine is in how broadly held perceptions of gender impact the work behaviors of women and men. See my website for more details: http://cooley.libarts.wsu.edu/jkmec/
Selected Publications:
Kmec, Julie A. and Lindsey B. Trimble. 2009. "Does it Pay to Have a Network Contact? Social Network Ties, Workplace Racial Context, and Pay Outcomes." Social Science Research 38: 266-78.
Gorman, Elizabeth and Julie A. Kmec. 2009. "Hierarchical Rank and Women's Organizational Mobility: Glass Ceilings in Corporate Law Firms." American Journal of Sociology 114: 1428-74.
Hirsh, Elizabeth and Julie A. Kmec. (Forthcoming, July 2009). "The Impact of Human Resource Structures: Reducing Employers' Discrimination or Raising Employees' Rights Awareness?" Industrial Relations.
Kmec, Julie A. 2008. "The Process of Sex Segregation in a Gender-Typed Field: The Case of Male Nurses." Sociological Perspectives 51:259-280.
Gorman, Elizabeth and Julie A. Kmec. 2007. "We (Have to) Try Harder: Gender and Workers’ Assessment of Required Work Effort in Britain and the United States.” Gender & Society 21: 828-856.
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