Limor Gabay-Egozi

Limor Gabay-Egozi is a postdoctoral associate at the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE) in the Department of Sociology at Yale University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Tel-Aviv University in 2011. Before coming to Yale, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Haifa, Israel (2010-2012).

Her main areas of interest include Social Stratification, the Sociology of Education, Gender Inequality and Research Methods. Limor’s work addresses the role of educational choice as a stratifying mechanism in the educational attainment process. At the moment she studies the dynamic of educational-choice at the context of mixed-town nationality. By interviewing Arab and Jewish families she is making an effort to understand school-choice within the context of mixed-town community and the effects of school-choice on class and ethno-religious identity.

In another line of research she examines how gender-role past circumstances, in micro and macro level, can explain current gender segregation in occupations and the observed cross-country variations in gender segregation. Past circumstances are conceptualized as individuals’ propensity for equality and fairness of gender-role in public and private spheres, and also as past structural characteristics of national labor markets, specifically those affected by family policies as reflecting gender-role in societies.