Biography
Pamela Stone is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College
and the Graduate
Center of the City University of New York.
She has contributed articles to numerous books and refereed journals
including American Sociological Review, Annals of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science, Teaching Sociology, and Journal of Women, Politics and Policy on such topics as gender inequality
in employment, occupational classification and measurement, job segregation,
pay equity, and the work-family interface. Her research has been supported by a variety
of funders including the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Sloan
Foundation. Former chair of the
Department of Sociology at Hunter, Stone was the recipient of a fellowship
at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard
University, where
she also served as Associate Director of the Radcliffe Public Policy
Institute. She is a fellow of
Hunter’s
Gender Equity Program, supported by NSF’s ADVANCE program, the goal
of which is to promote women in science.
Her recent book, Opting
Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home (University
of California Press, May 2007), which Business
Week called “provocative, superbly researched, and required
reading,” has been featured on NBC’s “Today” and “Weekend Today,” “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric,” and “ABC
World News Tonight,” among other TV and radio appearances, and she has
been widely quoted in such publications as Time,
USA Today, US News & World Report, Newsweek, and More. An honors graduate of
Duke University,
Stone received her PhD in Sociology from Johns Hopkins
University. Active in her profession, she was recently elected
Vice President of the Eastern Sociological Society for 2009-10. In research currently underway with various collaborators,
she is examining long-term trends in opting out and carrying out a cross-national
comparison of the utilization of flexible work options. Married and the mother of two,
she lives outside New York City in Larchmont, NY.
Professor Stone is always interested in working with students. She has several positions and internships available
as research and teaching assistants. To learn more, please contact her
at her email address: pstone@hunter.cuny.edu.
Additional contact information:
Mailing address:
Department of Sociology
Hunter College
695 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10065
Phone: (212) 772-5586 (direct line with voice mail) // (212) 772-5587
(Sociology office)
FAX: (212) 772-5645