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WashU Sociology's Fall 2025 Colloquium Series: Youngjoo Cha

The WashU Sociology Colloquium Series invites visiting scholars to share their work, while contributing to the general intellectual culture of the WashU Sociology Department.

Join the WashU Department of Sociology for our third installment of the Fall 2025 Colloquium Series, featuring Prof. Youngjoo Cha. 

Presentation Title: "How does parental leave shape perceptions of women and men as parents and workers? Survey-experimental evidence from South Korea, the US, and Germany"

Youngjoo Cha is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University - Bloomington. Her main research investigates how the trend toward long work hours and workplace norms prescribing long hours reinforce gender inequality, and under what conditions flexible work policies (e.g., flexible schedules, remote working, paid time off) can help to change these patterns. Her other research investigates how parenthood is associated with the gender pay gaps in various settings; the patterns and heterogeneity of hiring, promotion, wage outcomes of Asian-origin workers, particularly focusing on the role of stereotypes; the organizational, institutional, and market conditions that drive changes in organizational diversity; and how the pandemic has changed employees’ and employers’ perspectives on work. 

More about our guest: https://sociology.indiana.edu/about/faculty/cha-youngjoo.html 


Colloquia are open to a broader WashU audience; however, space is limited. 
Students who are interested in more advanced sociological inquiry are strongly encouraged to attend.