Professor Wendy Sigle

CASE Associate and Professor of Gender and Family Studies, Gender Institute, LSE

Expertise: feminist quantitative research, stratification, family and social policy

Telephone:

+44 (0)20 7955 7358

Email:

w.sigle-rushton@lse.ac.uk

Room:

LSE

Connect:

Website

Links:

LSE Gender Studies

Biography

Professor Wendy Sigle's current research interests are:

Poverty and inequality
Family and well-being
Gender inequalities in employment and earnings
Life course analysis

Wendy's latest projects include:

"Gendered Pathways to Adulthood", ESRC Gender Equality Network

Latest

CASEpapers

An exploration of childhood antecedents of female adult malaise in two British birth cohorts: Combining Bayesian model averaging and recursive partitioning

01 March 2005

John Hobcraft and Wendy Sigle-Rushton

We use information from two prospective British birth cohort studies to explore the antecedents of adult malaise, an indicator of incipient depression. These studies include a wealth of information on childhood circumsta... Read more...

CASEpapers

Intergenerational and Life-Course Transmission of Social Exclusion in the 1970 British Cohort Study

01 February 2004

Wendy Sigle-Rushton

This study used data from the British Cohort Study to examine the relationships between childhood background experiences and a variety of indicators of adult well-being. Similar to an earlier study that analyses the Nati... Read more...

Selected Work:

(2005) (with J Hobcraft and K Kiernan) Parential Disruption and Adult Well-Being: A cross cohort comparison
Demography, 42(3): 427-446
(2005) Young fatherhood and subsequent disadvantage in the United Kingdom
Journal of Marriage and the Family, 67(3): 735-753
(2006) (with D Perrons) Employment Transitions over the Lifecycle - A research review
Manchester: Equal Opportunities Commission
(2006) (with D Perrons) Employment Transitions over the Lifecycle - A statistical analysis
Manchester: Equal Opportunities Commission
(2007) (with J Waldfogel) Motherhood and Women's Earnings in Anglo-American, Continental European and Nordic Countries
Feminist Economics, 13(2): 55-91
(2007) (with J Waldfogel) Family gaps in income: A cross-national comparison
Journal of European Social Policy, 17(4): 299-318