I am a postdoc at Cornell University’s ILR School. My research focuses on gender inequality in organizations. I study how gender stereotypes impact women’s careers, and how gender roles and beliefs about gender roles constrain women. Further, I’m interested in how individuals reinforce the current gender system. Throughout my research, I use a multi-method approach including experiments, archival, and qualitative data.
I received my Ph.D. in Management and Organizations from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and my B.S. in Economics and B.A. in Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. Before attending UC Berkeley, I was a Consultant at Deloitte & Touche in Cyber Risk Services and I specialized in threat intelligence.
Townsend, C. H., Kray, L. J., & Russell, A. G. (2023). Holding the belief that gender roles can change reduces women’s work-family conflict. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231178349.
Hart, C. G., Townsend, C. H., & Delecourt, S. (2024). “Who believes gender research? How
readers’ gender shapes the evaluation of gender research” Social Psychology Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725241234855.
Townsend, C. H., Mishra, S., & Kray, L. J. (2024). “Not all powerful people are created equal: An examination of gender and pathways to social hierarchy through the lens of social cognition,” Psychological Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976241260251
Copyright © 2023 Charlotte Townsend - All Rights Reserved.