Michelle Budig

Michelle Budig's research includes labor market inequalities, wage penalties for caregiving, work-family policy, and nonstandard employment.

Michelle J. Budig's research interests include labor market inequalities, wage penalties for paid and unpaid caregiving, work-family policy, and nonstandard employment.

Her research has appeared in the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Social Problems, Journal of Marriage and the Family, and numerous other professional journals.

She is a past recipient of the Reuben Hill Award from the National Council on Family Relations, the World Bank/ Luxembourg Income Study Gender Research Award, and a two-time recipient of the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Research Excellence in Families and Work. She has provided expert testimony on the gender pay gap and the motherhood wage penalty to the US Congressional Joint Economic Commission and the Massachusetts State Legislature.

EDUCATION

• University of Arizona

  • M.A,, Sociology

• University of Arizona

  • Ph.D., Sociology

• Augsburg College

  • B.A., Sociology and English