Sharon R. Bird · Associate Professor
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Contact Information 217B East Hall 294-9283
sbird@iastate.edu BA University of Oklahoma |
Professor Bird’s teaching and research focus primarily on issues of inequality and paid labor. She is currently Co-PI on an NSF grant focused on the recruitment, retention and promotion of women in academic science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. Her work on the project includes the implementation of a “collaborative transformation” (action) research model aimed at improving STEM workplace climate, building quantitative data sets from existing data sources, and data analysis and dissemination based on these data sets. She is also currently doing research on gendered organizations, the sex gap in small business success and is interested in the following subject areas: and the sociology of work; the social construction of masculinities; race, class, and gender theory; organizational demography. Bird’s research appears in journals including Gender & Society, Social Psychology Quarterly, Rural Sociology, and Sociological Forum.
Recent selected publications:
Bird, Sharon R. and Stephen G. Sapp. 2004. "Understanding the Gender Gap in Small Business Success: Urban and Rural Comparisons.” Gender & Society 18 (1): 5-28.
Cast, Alicia and Sharon R. Bird. 2005. “Participation in Housework and Paid Labor: Effects of Role-Taking in Marriage.” Social Psychology Quarterly 68(2): 143-159.
Bird, Sharon R. and Leah Sokolofski. 2005. “Gendered Socio-Spatial Practices in Public Eating and Drinking Establishments in the United States.” Gender, Place and Culture 12(2): 213-230.
Bystydzienski, Jill, and Sharon R. Bird (eds.). 2006. Removing Barriers: Women in Academic Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics Careers. Edited book, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN).
Bird, Sharon R. 2006. “Masculinities in Rural Small Business Ownership: Between Community and Capitalism.” In M. Bell, H. Campbell, and M. Finney (eds.) Country Boys: Masculinity and Rural Life. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press.
Bird, Sharon R. 2006. “Theorizing Masculinities: Recent Trends in the Social Sciences.” Gender Studies Journal (of Eastern Europe) 14(1): 1-21.
Guiffre, Patti A., Cynthia Anderson, and Sharon R. Bird. forthcoming (2008). “Innovative Strategies for Teaching Gender and Work.” Teaching Sociology.
Bird, Sharon R. forthcoming (2008). “Masculinity Studies.” Encyclopedia of International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition, edited by William A. Darity (Editor-in-Chief), Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson/Gale, Macmillan Reference USA.
