Adia Harvey Wingfield

21st-century American sociologist

Adia Harvey Wingfield is a professor of sociology at Washington University in St. Louis and the 2018 President of Sociologists for Women in Society.2

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Born Jan 21, 1977.1

About

She is the author of several books, including No More Invisible Man: Race and Gender in Men's Work, and articles in peer-reviewed journals including Social Problems, Gender & Society, and Ethnic and Racial Studies. She has lectured internationally on her research.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedSpelman College3
  • Date not recordedJohns Hopkins University3

Career

Occupation: professor, sociologist.7

Wingfield is a contributing writer for Harvard Business Review, Slate, The Atlantic, Fortune, and Inside Higher Ed, and she has been quoted on NPR and in newspapers such as The New York Times, The Guardian, the Chicago Sun Times, Pacific Standard, and the Christian Science Monitor.

Wingfield analyzed the racial components of the popular sociological term "glass escalator" in her 2009 article, "Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering Men's Experiences with Women's Work" which she published in the journal, Gender & Society. Her article is widely cited and acclaimed.

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Personal life

Wingfield's father, William B. Harvey, Doctor of Education, was also an academic, and her mother was a K-12 educator.

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