Dr. Mary Gatta is the Director, Gender and Workforce Policy at the Center for Women, and on the faculty in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University. She holds a PhD and M.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University and a B.A. in Social Science from Providence College. Her areas of expertise include gender and public policy, low-wage workers, earnings inequality, and sex segregation studies.
Dr. Gatta has published several books, articles, and policy papers. Her latest book, Not Just Getting By: The New Era of Flexible Workforce Development released from Lexington Press's imprint Press for Change, chronicles groundbreaking thinking and research on new and innovative workforce development initiatives that delivers skills training to single working poor mothers via the Internet.
Her book, Juggling Food and Feelings: Emotional Balance in the Workplace was released from Lexington Press in 2002. In addition to books, Dr. Gatta has published numerous scholarly articles and public policy papers on topics including gender equity in academia, the gender-based pay gap, and welfare policy. Finally, Dr. Gatta was recently elected to a three-year Council term of the American Sociological Association’s Sociological Practice Section.