Furman sociology professor Christin Munsch has been conducting research on \u201cflexible work arrangements\u201d and how they are viewed in the workplace. She discovered that while most people have favorable attitudes about flexible work and the people who request it, they mistakenly believe other people hold unfavorable attitudes. As a result, people tend to publicly express unfavorable attitudes toward flexible work situations despite their personal beliefs.<\/p>\n
Munsch, along with Stanford sociologist Cecilia Ridgeway and UC Hastings Law Professor Joan Williams, completed a series of experiments to better understand the mechanisms producing the flexibility stigma\u2014along with possible solutions for lessening it. Their findings were published in the February issue of\u00a0Work & Occupations<\/strong><\/a><\/em>\u00a0and in Stanford University\u2019s\u00a0Gender News<\/i><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Munsch joined the Furman sociology faculty this fall.\u00a0 A graduate of the University of Virginia, she holds a M.S. degree from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.\u00a0 She completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Stanford\u2019s Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Her current research focuses on the social psychological underpinnings of gender inequality in work and in families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Furman sociology professor Christin Munsch has been conducting research on \u201cflexible work arrangements\u201d and how they are viewed in the workplace. She discovered that while most people have favorable attitudes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":12872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-sociology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}