Dr. Trond Petersen

Biography

Trond Petersen is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin in 1987 and has an extensive background in social stratification and economic sociology, with a particular focus on organizations and comparative studies. Petersen's research lies at the intersection of social inequality and quantitative methods, exploring how employer discrimination contributes to wage and hiring disparities between men and women. He has taught at Harvard University and has spent significant time in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oslo, where he invested years conducting detailed empirical research. His work often utilizes large-scale quantitative data from both the U.S. and Scandinavia to analyze employer behaviors and family adaptations in response to economic changes. Petersen has been a part of the academic landscape at Berkeley since 1988, bringing a wealth of knowledge and expertise in his field.

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