Jill Yavorsky

Jill Yavorsky

Associate Professor
College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences | Belk College of Business
704-687-8339
Fretwell 490H

Dr. Jill Yavorsky is an associate professor in the sociology department and in the interdisciplinary Organizational Science doctoral program at the UNC Charlotte. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from The Ohio State University in 2017. Her research interests include occupational segregation patterns, dynamics of economically successful couples, divisions of labor of new parents, and career and workplace outcomes. Dr. Yavorsky’s work has been featured in top academic journals including American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Gender & Society,  as well as in mainstream media outlets such as the New York Times, TIME, Forbes, Washington Post, Newsweek, Slate, Chicago Tribune, etc. In addition to publishing and teaching, Dr. Yavorsky enjoys consulting with firms on issues of diversity and inclusion.

Education

Ph.D., 2017
The Ohio State University
Major: Sociology
Dissertation: “Inequality in Hiring: Gendered and Classed Discrimination in the Labor Market”

Master of Arts, Sociology, 2012
The Ohio State University

Bachelor of Science, 2006
Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Gender Stratification
  • Work and Organizations
  • Economic Elites
  • Gender, Race, and Class
  • Family and Work Dynamics
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Selected Publications

Qian, Y., Glauber, R., & Yavorsky, J. E. (2023). COVID-19 job loss and re-employment among partnered parents: Gender and educational variations. Journal of Marriage and Family, 85(5), 1138–1152. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12927

Yavorsky, J. E., Keister, L. A., Qian, Y., & Thébaud, S. (2023). Separate spheres: The gender division of labor in the financial elite. Social Forces, 102(2), 609–632. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soad061

Keister, L. A., Thébaud, S., & Yavorsky, J. E. (2022). Gender in the elite. Annual Review of Sociology, 48(1), 149–169. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-020321-031544

Yavorsky, J. E., & Ruppanner, L. (2022). An argument for universal preschool and childcare in the U.S. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 41(3), 922–929. https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.22399

†Sargent, A. C., Shanock, L. G., Banks, G. C., & Yavorsky, J. E. (2022). How gender matters: A conceptual and process model for family-supportive supervisor behaviors. Human Resource Management Review, 32(4), 100880. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2021.100880

Roscigno, V. J., Yavorsky, J. E., & Quadlin, N. (2021). Gendered dignity at work. American Journal of Sociology, 127(2), 562–620. https://doi.org/10.1086/717448

Note: †denotes graduate student co-author at time of publication