• October 12, 2015

  • ASA award for research published and NSF award for further work

Andrew Penner, sociology associate professor, is the co-recipient of the Article of the Year Award from the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of the Family section. The honor recognizes a journal article published from 2012-14 that has made a significant contribution to the field of family sociology. For Penner, this work included his research on the gender wage gap during a time of extensive expansion of family policies. In “From Motherhood Penalties to Husband Premia: The New Challenge for Gender Equality and Family Policy, Lessons from Norway,” coauthored with Trond Petersen, University of California, Berkeley and Geir Høgsnes, University of Oslo, and published in the American Journal of Sociology, he found that in 1979, the gender wage gap was primarily due to the motherhood penalty, but by 1996 husband premia were more important than motherhood penalties. He and coauthors received their award at the ASA annual meeting held in Chicago in late August.

Penner has also been awarded an $80,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study income inequalities and potential workplace dynamics that produce them. Combining Linked Employer-Employee Panel (LEEP) data with local institutional knowledge, he will seek to determine what factors drive overall income inequality in workplaces and whether employers in general exacerbate or mitigate the impact of individual distinctions such as education level, gender and immigrant status. Funding for this work began in September and will run through August 2018.

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