“Penalty or Premium? The Effects of Motherhood on Professional Women’s Wages”
Dr. Claudia Buchmann, Sociology
“Sociolinguistic archetypes and the perception of performed gender speech”
Dr. Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, Linguistics
“Southeast Asian Women’s Health Project”
Dr. Jennifer Kue et al., Nursing: Center for Excellence for Critical and Complex Care
Dr. Jeanine Thompson, Theater
“Self-Compassion: A Modifiable Protective Factor for Women’s Body Image and Eating Behavior?”
Dr. Tracy L. Tylka, Psychology
“Penalty or Premium? The Effects of Motherhood on Professional Women’s Wages”
In the past 30 years, women have increasingly entered professional occupations, such that today their participation rates in many traditionally-male occupations, including medicine, law and business, are close to those of men. Much research finds that women’s wages are usually negatively affected by having children, while the opposite is true for men. This motherhood wage penalty is well-documented, as is its corollary, the fatherhood wage premium. But little research has examined the relationship between motherhood and wages among highly-educated professional women who have entered traditionally male dominated fields. In prior research, I find that highly educated women in law, medicine, and STEM professions do not experience a motherhood penalty in their wages and the proposed research will seek to understand why this is the case.
“Sociolinguistic archetypes and the perception of performed gender speech”
Some acoustic differences between men’s and women’s speech stem from physical differences but there is a great deal of evidence that the bulk of speech differences stem from gendered performance (Sachs et al. 1973, Van Bezooijen 1995; Johnson 2006) and are used by speakers to help construct gendered identities (Barrett 1995; Hall 1995; Eckert & McConnell-‐Ginet 2003). This project examines the role of imagined gendered extremes in cultural understandings of gendered speech by asking participants to evaluate explicitly performed stereotypical masculine and feminine speech.
“Southeast Asian Women’s Health Project”
Cervical cancer is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among women in the United States. Southeast Asian women experience the highest cervical cancer incidence of any racial/ethnic group, yet they are screened at unacceptably low rates. Familial aspects, intergenerational conflict, and communication patterns about cancer and cancer prevention are factors that may potentially influence cervical cancer beliefs and Pap test uptake. In this study, we define culturally based factors that influence Pap test completion and describe them in the context of Southeast Asian culture and intergenerational cultural dialogue, allowing future interventions to leverage these beliefs to optimize intervention effect.
“The Marcel Marceau Project: A Legacy of Eminence That Reaches Around The World. Performance, Symposium, and Exhibit, April 2014”
OSU performance project based on the life and work of the great French mime artist Marcel Marceau and, Associate Professor in Theatre, Jeanine Thompson’s 22 years of learning and working with him as a female performing artist. Her time with Marceau was filled with great inspiration and learning however it was also fraught with sexism and belittlement of women as mime artists. This project also shares her journey of confronting and changing these perceptions in this male dominated art form and how she has been an advocate for female mime artists around the world. Performance dates April 2014.
“Self-Compassion: A Modifiable Protective Factor for Women’s Body Image and Eating Behavior?”
People high in self-compassion treat themselves with kindness and nonjudgmental understanding when responding to personal threats, which helps buffer their distress. Threats could include appearance-related pressures from media, peers, partners, and family. Women are often confronted by appearance-related pressures, which predict body image and eating disturbances. This study investigates whether self-compassion weakens these associations—it is hypothesized that women high in self-compassion receiving appearance-related pressures have lower body image and eating disturbances than women low in self-compassion receiving these pressures. If supported, this investigation could shape efforts to prevent and treat eating disturbances by incorporating interventions that specifically increase self-compassion