Join Erin A. Cech (she/her), Harmony Reppond, and me later this month for a panel discussion on Erin's book "The Trouble with Passion- How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality" irwg.umich.edu/events/trouble…

Virual and in person panel on #TheTroubleWithPassion, Wednesday Oct 25. Sponsored by Institute for Research on Women & Gender; registeration is free. Honored to discuss the book with Prof. Megan Killian and Prof. Harmony Reppond!

Is following your work passion overrated? "Employers who prioritize passion expect people to give more time and energy without being paid more," says Erin A. Cech (she/her), author of THE TROUBLE WITH PASSION irishtimes.com/business/work/…

Thank you all for sharing your heartfelt words & stories of Xiaohong. His impact is deeply evident. In honor of Professor Xu, and to ensure his legacy lives on for future generations, we have established the Xiaohong Xu Memorial Support Endowment Fund. myumi.ch/96r6z

📢Postdoc Opportunity! Come work with our multidisciplinary (psych, soc, environ sci, hist, phil) UMich & Mich State team on our NSF-funded project investigating the effects of negative dept and team climate on early-career STEM folks. Apply now! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/245…

Erin A. Cech (she/her) and I are studying how engineering students and practitioners learn about their responsibilities to the public. We have a new article comparing the impact of different types of instruction - we need to do a better job educating engineers! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

#UmichSoc Associate Professor Erin Cech’s study finds that white men are more attuned to systemic race & gender bias after experiencing workplace harassment. Explore her impactful work and fascinating findings! ➡️ myumi.ch/bEEdd

Thanks to Jane Thier for this great writeup in FORTUNE on the "lowering meritocratic blinders" research-- how workplace harassment experiences increase white men's recognition and reporting of race and gender bias at work

ARE TOMORROW'S ENGINEERS READY TO FACE AI'S ETHICAL CHALLENGES? Our team finds engineering students are woefully unprepared for AI's ethical dilemmas & engr colleges often provide little serious training w/elana goldenkoff cindy.finelli theconversation.com/are-tomorrows-… - The Conversation U.S.

📣 Meet a 2024 #NCWITSummit Keynote Speaker! Drawing from several U.S. National Science Foundation-funded studies and her recent book, #MisconceivingMerit, Erin A. Cech (she/her) will discuss ideologies that produce STEM inequalities and how to interrupt them to cultivate inclusion! Register: bit.ly/NCWIT-2024Summ…

👀Americans who experience downward mobility are more likely to attribute inequality to structural processes, while those who rise are more likely to reject structural explanations. NEW: UM Population Studies Center's Sofia Hiltner and Erin A. Cech (she/her) in Social Forces. Full abstract below ⬇️

Engineers must ensure their technologies do not harm public safety or well-being, but nearly a third of U.S. engineers never received training on this. cindy.finelli & Erin A. Cech (she/her) are integrating sociotechnical issues into engineering education Article 🔽 bit.ly/3KGRPW1

New study finds that white men who experience workplace mistreatment are more likely to recognize and act against gender and racial biases among colleagues. Michigan Sociology's Erin A. Cech (she/her)'s research suggests that personal encounters with bullying can significantly shift perceptions of