So Yun Park
My research examines why workplace policies often fail to deliver what they promise, focusing on the gap between formal rules and everyday practice. One ongoing project investigates how workers read colleagues' behavior to judge whether family leave is safe to use, showing through a preregistered experiment that visible behavior, not leadership endorsement, is what moves workplace culture. Another analyzes two decades of family-leave litigation to examine how employers account for adverse actions against workers who use leave. A third project, with Eunsil Oh, audits when AI resume screening produces discriminatory outcomes and how deployment context shapes the risk. As such, my work traces how policies succeed or fail at the point of interpretation, across workplaces, legal disputes, and algorithmic systems.
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.”