Invited Comments & Op-Eds

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):

Harvard Business Review : The surprising problem of following your passion (Video)
Nature: “How a passion for research could hinder your career and exacerbate inequities in science”
NPR: “It’s OK not to be passionate about your job” [19 min]
ABC Australia: “Love What you Do: The Problem with Passion at Work” [17 min]
The Professor is In Podcast: “Ep 2:32 The Problem With Passion – Interview with Dr. Erin Cech” [34 min]
The Zero Hour Podcast with RJ Eskow: Prof. Erin A. Cech: "The Trouble With Passion" [35 min]
New Books Network Podcast: “The Trouble with Passion” [41 min]
Science for the People: “The Trouble with Passion” [65 min]
Radio New Zealand - Sunday Morning: “Why Passion can be a dangerous thing” [24 min]
Woke AF Podcast: “The Trouble with Passion” [46 min]

Podcasts on STEM Inequality Research:

Michigan Minds Podcast discussing Inequality in STEM Research: Studying Social Inequities Affecting STEM Professionals [23:57 min]

Honors & Public recognition

One of 40 LGBTQ+ Leaders Under 40 recognized by Business Equality Magazine
Cech & Blair-Loy 2019 honored as one of Top 10 PNAS Articles of 2019
2021 Henry Russel Award winner
GO Magazine “100 Women We Love” for 2021

Media Coverage of Research

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