Current Projects

We are currently engaged in ongoing projects on multiple topics, including:

• Success strategies employed by women executives in industries such as finance, pharmaceuticals, and communications
• Women’s attrition in undergraduate STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) majors
• Impact of New Jersey Family Leave Insurance on Workers and Their Families
• The Availability and Use of Earned Sick Days in New Jersey
• Access to and favorability of earned sick days by residents of New Jersey
• Affects of Family Leave Insurance on maternal and infant health behaviors: a state-by-state look at leave benefits and health outcomes
• Impact of training on quality of care for home-based health care recipients
• Impact of unionization on home-based childcare providers in New Jersey
• Spouses who live apart for work-related reasons:  what can they teach us more broadly about the negotiation of family, gender, and careers in the United States today?
• Strategies to promote effective institutional transformation for equity in career and technical education programs
• State policy for equity in the STEM education to work pipeline
• The transition between associate and full professor for university faculty, with a particular focus on women in the STEM disciplines