Peer-Reviewed Publications

Wynn, Alison T. and Emily K. Carian. 2023. “High-Hanging Fruit: How Gender Bias Remains Entrenched in Performance Evaluations.Social Problems.

In press: Harvard Business Review.

Wynn, Alison T. 2020. “Pathways Toward Change: Ideologies and Gender Equality in a Silicon Valley Technology Company.Gender & Society 34(1): 106-130.

In press: Harvard Business Review, Forbes, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Next Web, and Maize Magazine.

Podcast: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/gas/collections/podcasts.

Correll, Shelley J., Katherine R. Weisshaar, Alison T. Wynn, and JoAnne Delfino Wehner. 2020. “Inside the Black Box of Organizational Life: The Gendered Language of Performance Assessment.American Sociological Review 85(6): 1022-1050.

In press: Insights by Stanford Business, BBC Worklife, Nieman Lab.

Wynn, Alison T. and Aliya Hamid Rao. 2020. “Failures of Flexibility: How Perceived Control Motivates the Individualization of Work-Life Conflict.ILR Review 73(1): 61-90.

In press: Harvard Business Review, The American Lawyer, and Consultor.

Wynn, Alison T. 2019. “Change Without an Agent: What Happens When Change Agents Leave?Organizational Dynamics 48(4): 1-11.

In press: Behavioral Scientist, MIT Sloan Management Review.

Wynn, Alison T. 2018. “Misery Has Company: The Shared Emotional Consequences of Everwork Among Women and Men.” Sociological Forum 33(3): 712-734.

Wynn, Alison T. and Shelley J. Correll. 2018. “Puncturing the Pipeline: Do Technology Companies Alienate Women in Recruiting Sessions?” Social Studies of Science 48(1): 149-164. 

In press: WIREDInc., Insights by Stanford Business, Fast Company, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Stanford eCorner, Global News The App Show, Dear Discreet Guide, and TNW Answers.

Wynn, Alison T., Magali Fassiotto, Caroline Simard, Jennifer Raymond, and Hannah Valantine. 2018. “Pulled in Too Many Directions: The Causes and Consequences of Work-Work Conflict.” Sociological Perspectives 61(5): 830-849.

In press: Better Life Lab and Financial Times.

Wynn, Alison T. and Shelley J. Correll. 2017. “Gendered Perceptions of Cultural and Skill Alignment in Technology Companies.” Social Sciences 6(2): 45-73.

Wynn, Alison T. 2017. “Gender, Parenthood, and Perceived Chances of Promotion.” Sociological Perspectives 60(4): 645-664. Selected as Editor's Pick.

Podcast: http://journals.sagepub.com/page/spx/podcasts.


Book Chapters

Wynn, Alison T. 2022. “How Does a Silicon Valley Company Approach Gender Equality Change?Working in America, 5th Edition, edited by Amy S. Wharton. New York: Routledge.

Wynn, Alison T. and Shelley J. Correll. 2018. “Combating Gender Bias in Modern Workplaces.” Handbook of the Sociology of Gender, edited by Barbara Risman, Carissa Froyum, and William Scarborough. New York: Springer Press.


Working Papers

Wynn, Alison T., JoAnne Wehner, and Sofia Kennedy. “Fostering Equity in Performance Reviews: Exploring Managers’ Experiences of a ‘Small Wins’ Intervention.”

Wynn, Alison T. “Human Resources Professionals’ Approaches to Gender Equality Change in a Silicon Valley Technology Company.”

Wehner, JoAnne, Kristine Kilanski, and Alison Wynn. “The Decoupling of Performance: How Managers’ and HR’s Competing Goals in Performance Management Contribute to Biased Outcomes.”