As a sociologist with a particular interest in gender stratification and economic inequality, my research focuses on the hidden, unconscious, and primarily unintended mechanisms that create, sustain, and preserve gender inequality in society at large, within the family, and in the labor market in particular. Throughout my career I have explored the changing nature of gender inequality over time, and variations in patterns of gender inequality across national labor markets and different socioeconomic groups. In addition to the use of quantitative methodology within a comparative framework, common to all my works is the underlying motivation to explore the complexity of gender inequality in modern societies.

I am a full professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Tel Aviv University, which I headed from 2019 to 2022. Since 2017 I am the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded (Horizon 2020) project addressing the structural and individual aspects underpinning the development of gender inequality over time and across societies (see results brief). My project uses mostly quantitative research methods and is comparative in nature. Its main argument is that as women become more integrated into positions of power (i.e. individual aspects of inequality decline), the more influential the role of structural aspects of inequality is likely to become. These aspects, however, are less visible and amenable to empirical assessment, and thus are under-researched compared to individual aspects, and are more commonly assumed to be gender-neutral.

My published work focuses on the intersection between gender, class, race, and social policies, and the complex and seemingly paradoxical implications of welfare state policies on women’s economic attainments. These works have been published in the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Demography, Social Forces, European Sociological Review, the British Journal of Sociology and others.