Dr. Mary Gatta is Director of Workforce Policy and Research at the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Rutgers University, an M.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University and a B.A. in Social Science from Providence College. Her areas of expertise include women's work in the service sector, the emotional labor of workers, gender earnings inequality, and sex segregation studies.
Dr. Gatta currently directs an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funded project that provides technical assistance and resources to states to scale up a New Jersey pilot project of online learning for low wage workers throughout the country. Her book on this project, Not Just Getting By: The New Era of Flexible Workforce Development released from Lexington Press's imprint Press. This book chronicles groundbreaking thinking and research on new and innovative workforce development initiatives that delivers skills training to single working poor mothers via the Internet.
In addition to books, Dr. Gatta has published numerous scholarly articles and public policy papers on topics including gender equity in academia, workforce development policies for low wage workers, the gender based pay gap, and occupational sex segregation.