Mary Blair-Loy, Associate Professor

Articles & Chapters

M. Blair-Loy, Amy S. Wharton, and Jerry Goodstein. 2011. “Exploring the Relationship between Mission Statements and Work-Life Practices in Organizations.” Organization Studies 32: 427–450.

Erin Cech and M. Blair-Loy. 2010. “Perceiving Glass Ceilings? Meritocratic vs. Structural Explanations among Women in Science and Technology.” Social Problems 57: 371-397.

Blair-Loy, M. 2010. “Moral Dimensions of the Work-Family Nexus.” In S. Hitlin and S. Vaisey, eds. Handbook of the Sociology of Morality. New York: Springer.

M. Blair-Loy. 2009. “Work Without End? Scheduling Flexibility and Work-to-Family Conflict among Stockbrokers.” Work and Occupations 36:279-317

Jerry Goodstein, M. Blair-Loy, and Amy S. Wharton. 2009. “Organization-Based Legitimacy:  Core Ideologies and Moral Action.” 2009. In I. Reed and J. Alexander, eds. Meaning and Method: The Cultural Approach to Sociology. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.

Amy Binder, Mary Blair-Loy, John H. Evans, Kwai Ng, and Michael Schudson. 2008.  “The Diversity of Culture.” Pp. 1-9 in Cultural Sociology and its Diversity.  Special issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Vol. 619 (September). 

Amy S. Wharton, Sarah Chivers, and M. Blair-Loy.  2008.  "Use of Formal and Informal Work-Family Policies on the Digital Assembly Line." Work and Occupations 35: 327-350.

Amy S. Wharton and Mary Blair-Loy. 2006. “Long Work Hours and Family Life: A Cross-National Study of Employees’ Concerns.” Journal of Family Issues. 27:415-436

M. Blair-Loy and Michal Frenkel. 2005.  “Societal Cultural Models of Work and Family: An International Perspective.” In M. Pitt-Catsouphes and P. Raskin, eds., Work-Family Encyclopedia, Chestnut Hill, MA: Sloan Work and Family Research Network at Boston College.  

M. Blair-Loy and Amy S. Wharton. 2004. “Mothers in Finance: Surviving and Thriving.”  Annals of the AmericanAcademy of Political and Social Science. 596:151-171.

M. Blair-Loy and Amy S. Wharton. 2004. “Organizational Commitment and Constraints on Work-Family Policy Use: Corporate Flexibility Policies in a Global Firm.” Sociological Perspectives 47:243-267.

M. Blair-Loy. 2004. “Work Devotion and Work Time.” In C. F. Epstein and A. Kalleberg, eds., Fighting for Time: Shifting Boundaries of Work and Family. Russell Sage Foundation.

M. Blair-Loy and Jerry A. Jacobs.  2003. “Globalization, Work Hours, and the Care Deficit among Stockbrokers.” Gender & Society 17:230-249. (Reprinted In M. K. Zimmerman, J. S. Litt, and C.E. Bose, eds., Global Dimensions of Carework. 2006, Stanford University Press.)

M. Blair-Loy and Gretchen DeHart. 2003. "Family and Career Trajectories among African American Female Attorneys.” Journal of Family Issues 24:908-933. (Reprinted in P. J. Dubeck, ed. Workplace/Women’s Place, 3rd edition.  2006, Roxbury Publishing Company.)

M. Blair-Loy and Amy S. Wharton. 2002. “Employees’ Use of Family-Responsive Policies and the Workplace Social Context.” Social Forces 80: 813-845.

Amy S. Wharton and M. Blair-Loy. 2002. "The ‘Overtime Culture’ in a Global Corporation: A Cross National Study of Finance Professionals' Interest in Working Part-Time." Work and Occupations 29:32-63.

M. Blair-Loy. 2001. “Cultural Constructions of Family Schemas: The Case of Women Executives.” Gender & Society 15:687-709.

M. Blair-Loy. 2001. "It's Not Just What You Know, It's Who You Know: Technical Knowledge, Rainmaking, and Gender among Finance Executives." Research in the Sociology of Work 10: 51-83.

M. Blair-Loy. 1999. "Career Patterns of Executive Women in Finance: An Optimal Matching Analysis." American Journal of Sociology 104:1346-97.

Jerry A. Jacobs and M. Blair-Loy. 1996. "Gender, Race, Local Labor Markets, and Occupational Devaluation." Sociological Focus 29:209-230.

Ross M. Stolzenberg, M. Blair-Loy and Linda J. Waite. 1995. "Religious Participation in Early Adulthood: Age and Family Life Cycle Effects on Church Membership." American Sociological Review 60:84-103.