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Sociology Department Penelope Huang Penelope Huang Penelope Huang received her master’s degree in Psychology from Brandeis University and her doctoral degree in Sociology from the University of Washington, where her dissertation assessed gendered inequalities in the workplace and family and examined public policy efforts at the work-family intersection. She received postdoctoral training at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan and her research interests continue to include equity issues in the labor market and union and family formation. Her teaching interests include sociology of family, sociology of gender, women and work, social demography, introductory statistics, and research methods. She has taught previously at Mills College and the University of Washington. Dr. Huang is currently involved in a variety of research endeavors, each focused on equity issues in various labor markets. She is working with the Center for Public Health Practice at U.C. Berkeley on a project examining race/ethnic diversity in the healthcare workforce and consults for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she conducts workforce development research in the science and engineering fields. With the Center for WorkLife Law at U.C. Hastings Law School, she is working on a qualitative project examining stereotypes of women in the science and engineering professions, and for the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers, she is examining the perceptions, experiences, and biases against part-time lawyers. She is also a senior research affiliate of the California Center for Research on Women and Families, where she assists in the development of research proposals and the design of research projects focused on women’s issues in the state of California.
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