joyamisra

Joya Misra is a professor of sociology and public policy at the University of Massachusetts. She studies gender, family, employment, and care with a focus on how families balance these issues in different countries, and how this plays out in terms of gender inequality. In particular, she explores how policies supporting work-family balance impact women’s employment, wages, and their families’ risk of poverty. This work – carried our collaboratively with Michelle Budig, Irene Boeckmann, and Stephanie Moller (among others) – has been funded by National Science Foundation through several grants, and has appeared in a wide range of academic journals. She also studies care and employment among academics, exploring how faculty – who work very long hours – balance work-family, and also how institutional policies can help support work-family balance in ways that help diversify the academy.