The first line of my research examines occupational stratification by analyzing how sexual orientation and gender intersect with stigma, institutional structures, and policy environments to shape labor market outcomes. Key areas of interest include:

• Occupational segregation

• Labor force attachment and employment stability

• Wage Disparities

• Sheltered labor market and employment sector

• Anti-discrimination policy

• STEM professions

• Occupational norms and cultural schemas

• Compensatory work behaviors

The second line of my research examines how identity-related processes shape mental health among sexual minority individuals, with particular attention to tensions between individual self-concept and collective affiliation. Key areas of focus include:

• Social identity theory

• Minority stress processes

• Identity centrality and salience

• Internalized homophobia

• LGBT community sentiment and collective efficacy

• Linked fate

• Mental health outcomes

A third line of my research examines family outcomes, with particular attention to how sexual orientation and gender shape domestic labor, relationship formation, and fertility-related processes. Key areas of focus include:

• Division of housework and care work

• Housework outsourcing

• Work–family specialization

• Online dating and assortative mating

• Gender norms and fertility desires

• Parent–child relationships

A final line of my research examines the life course implications of gender- and sexuality-based inequalities, with particular attention to geographic mobility, social networks, and labor force trajectories. Key areas of focus include:

• Internal migration

• Cumulative effects of labor market precarity

• Longitudinal labor market trajectories

• Peer group socialization

• Early-life adversity and health outcomes