So Yun Park
PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Sociology
email: spark553@wisc.edu
I am a sociologist of organizations and inequality. My research examines how formally neutral workplace policies and technologies reproduce gender inequality, focusing on family leave and AI in hiring. My dissertation, Navigating Family Leave Usage in the Workplace, studies how workers and employers interpret family leave rights, combining preregistered experiments and analysis of litigation records. It is supported by an American Sociological Association Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant funded by the National Science Foundation. My research interests include organizations; gender, work and family; AI and the future of work; and quantitative methods.
Here is my CV.
Publications
- Park, So Yun and Eunsil Oh. 2025. “Getting a Foot in the Door: A Meta-Analysis of U.S. Audit Studies of Gender Bias in Hiring.” Sociological Science 12: 26–50.
- Kim, Soohan, Dongjoon Park, and So Yun Park. 2019. “Gender Inequality and Women’s Role in Interdisciplinary Research.” The Women’s Studies 102(3): 5–36. [In Korean]
Working papers
- Oh, Eunsil* and So Yun Park*. “Through the Algorithmic Door: The Organizational Context of Hiring Discrimination in the AI Era.” Under review. * Equal authorship
- Daminger, Allison, So Yun Park, and Jaclyn Wong. “The Gendered (De)Valuation of Housework: An Experimental Vignette Study of Household Task Perceptions.” Under review.
- Park, So Yun, Jaclyn Wong, and Allison Daminger. “LLM-Assisted Team Coding: Increasing Codebook Precision, Boosting Intercoder Reliability, and Bulk-Coding Open-Ended Survey Responses.” Under review.
Work in progress
- Park, So Yun. “Organizational Accounts and the Legal Erosion of Parental Leave Rights.” Manuscript available.
- Park, So Yun. “Beyond Policy: How Colleagues’ Gender and Hierarchy Influence Family Leave Decisions.” Manuscript available.
- Park, So Yun and Yoon Jae Choi. “The Impossible Worker: Discursive Fragmentation and the Cultural Foundations of Korea’s Work-Family Policy Paradox, 1948–2025.”
- Park, So Yun and Jungmyung Kim. “Inside Workplace Flexibility: Gender Dynamics and the Challenges of Parenthood.”