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Carroll Seron is a Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Building on her earlier work in the sociology of the professions, with Susan Silbey, her current research seeks to explain the persistent under-representation of women in engineering. She has published in Law & Society Review, Work & Occupations, Criminology among other journals. She is currently the Editor of Law & Society Review.

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Erin Cech is a doctoral candidate in sociology at UC, San Diego. Her research examines individual-level, cultural mechanisms that reproduce inequality, especially those pertaining to sex segregation in science and engineering fields. Her dissertation investigates the self-expressive edge of inequality, analyzing how gender schemas and self-conceptions influence career decisions of college students over time. She also studies the role of professional culture in wage inequality, cross-national beliefs about work time for mothers (with Maria Charles), and, in a Social Problems article, perceptions of inequality among high-level professional women (with Mary Blair-Loy). She earned Electrical Engineering and Sociology degrees from Montana State University.

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Susan S. Silbey is Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Head, Department of Anthropology.

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Brian Rubineau is an Assistant Professor in Organizational Behavior at Cornell University's ILR School. Professor Rubineau joined the Cornell University faculty in 2007. Professor Rubineau earned his Ph.D. at the MIT Sloan School of Management, concentrating in Economic Sociology and Organization Studies. His dissertation was entitled, "Gendering professions: An analysis of peer effects." Professor Rubineau also earned a Masters degree in Public Health from Harvard University, a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Science from MIT.

Professor Rubineau's research focuses on the informal social dynamics that generate and perpetuate inequalities in organizations. This focus has yielded three primary research streams: 1.) referral dynamics and job segregation, 2.) social network effects and sex segregation in engineering, and 3.) professional socialization of physicians and racial disparities in patient care. The first stream, referral dynamics and job segregation, explores practices and policies organizations can implement to reduce the segregating effects of recruitment using word-of-mouth referrals. The second stream, social networks and sex segregation in engineering, scrutinizes the role of a person's social milieu on their career choices, and examines gender differences in both the operation and effects of these social influence processes. The third stream, professional socialization of physicians and racial disparities in patient care, seeks to understand whether and how the professional culture of medicine and socialization into that culture contributes to the pervasive and intransigent problem of differential treatment by patient race.

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