Prof. Youngjoo Cha, Ph.D.

Contact

cha5 [at] indiana.edu
Reichpietschufer 50
D-10785 Berlin
room
E212
Former Visiting Researcher of the Research Department
Skill Formation and Labor Markets
Visiting Researcher of the Research Professorship
Work, Family and Social Inequality

short profile

Youngjoo Cha is Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University Bloomington. Her research interests are in gender, work, family, occupations and organizations. Her major line of research investigates how the trend toward long work hours reinforces gender inequality, and what organizational and institutional conditions help to change this trend. Her other research examines the effect of marriage and parenthood on the gender pay gap, the role of Asian stereotypes on the labor market outcomes for Asian women and men in the U.S., and conditions under which discrimination lawsuits can undermine workplace inequality. Her work appeared in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Gender & Society, ILR Review, and Sociological Science. Her research has been featured in the Atlantic, Economist, Forbes, New York Times, The New Yorker, and Washington Post. Youngjoo Cha was the 2022/2023 Karl W. Deutsch Visiting Professor at the WZB and visited the institute again in June/July 2025.