Invited Comments & Op-Eds

The Conversation. 2024. “White men who have been mistreated at work are more likely to notice and report harassment”

The Conversation. 2024. Are tomorrow’s engineers ready to face AI’s ethical challenges?" (with Elana Goldenkoff)

Harvard Business Review. 2022. "Striking a balance between your passion and your paycheck.”

Times Higher Education. 2022. “Address STEM Inequality by Reconceiving Merit”

The Conversation. 2022. “5 Drawbacks to Following your Passion"

The Atlantic. 2021. “Loving your Job is a Capitalist Trap”

Harvard Business Review. 2018. “Your Flex Work Culture Doesn’t Help Employees if it Hurts Their Career”

Work in Progress Blog. 2017. "Rugged Meritocratists: Explaining Trump Supporters' Resistance to Social Justice Efforts." ASA Organizations, Occupations and Work Section.

Gender and Society Blog. 2016. "Don't Blame it on the Family: The Myth of Family Plans and the Reproduction of Occupational Sex Segregation."

Nature. 2014. “Embed social awareness in science curricula.” Vol.505 (7484):477-8.


Interviews & Podcasts

Select Interviews & Podcasts on The Trouble With Passion (see here for full list):


Podcasts on STEM Inequality Research:


Honors & Public recognition


Media Coverage of Research

Trouble With Passion (selection)

--- Financial Times
--- Forbes
--- Nature News
--- Business Insider
--- The Globe and Mail (Canada)
--- Refinery29
--- Der Standard


Intersectional Privilege in STEM (Cech 2022, Science Advances)

       --- Science News
--- Forbes

Misconceiving Merit (with Mary Blair-Loy; selection)

---Inside Higher Ed
--- Science

Parenthood in STEM (Cech & Blair-Loy 2019, PNAS)

       --- Science News
       --- Nature News
       --- Reuters
       --- Time
       --- CNN
       --- Forbes
--- The Scientist

LGBTQ Inequality in STEM (Cech & Waidzunas 2021, Science Advances)

       --- Science
--- Nature
--- New York Times
     --- Science Careers
— The Guardian
— Zocalo- What Science Loses to LGBTQ Bias


Family Plans and Occupational Sex Segregation (Cech 2016, Gender & Society)

    --- ASA Contexts
    --- International Business Times
    --- Glamour
    --- London School of Economics' US Centre Blog


Professional Culture and Persistence in Engineering (Seron, Silbey, Cech & Rubineau, 2016 Work and Occupations)

   --- Harvard Business Review
   --- IEEE Spectrum
   --- PC World Mexico
   --- Times Higher Education

"Culture of Disengagement in Engineering Education?" (Cech 2014, ST&HV)

      --- The Atlantic
      --- Inside Higher Ed
      --- Houston Chronicle
      --- IEEE Spectrum

"Professional Role Confidence and Gendered Persistence in Engineering." (Cech et al. 2012, ASR).

    --- Huffington Post
    --- Chronicle of Higher Education


Videos

The "Self-Expressive Edge" of Occupational Sex Segregation (2014)
Self-Expression and Segregation

Supportive Communities: Native American Students in STEM (2012)
Supportive Communities



Provided Commentary


Nature news article (Sept. 16, 2014)
"Diversity: Pride in Science"

Womenetics article (Aug. 4, 2014)
"Is Confidence Key to Calculus?"


Autostrattle article (Sept. 13, 2013)
"Queered Science: Why Social Justice and STEM Professions Should Hang Out More Often"

USA Today article (Nov. 28, 2012)
"Women band together, make inroads into tech"

 Prism article (Oct. 1, 2011)
"Secrets Are Out: Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender engineers are no longer willing to hide true selves"

 New Scientist article (July 18, 2009)
New Scientist: Bringing it all together