Mallory Rees

Mallory Rees

Graduate Student

Email: mer294@g.ucla.edu


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Biography

Mallory’s research focuses on how gender ideologies and cultural schemas shape power relations, particularly in the contexts of work, sexual harassment, parenting, and childbirth. Specifically, she recently published a paper on how direct selling organizations train consultants to appeal to the conflict mothers experience from the gendered time-bind to sell their industry as a flexible work solution compatible with time-intensive parenting practices. Since 2017, she has worked with Abigail C. Saguy as a research assistant on a project involving contemporary debates over the meaning of gender and how best to achieve gender equality. Working for this project, she co-authored a paper on the scope, limits, and under-utilized potential of gender neutrality as a US legal concept. She also co-authored a paper on gender and parenting that has been conditionally accepted by Social Forces. Her dissertation work examines debates, in the United States, over attempted vaginal births following a cesarean section.

Degrees

  • B.S. Journalism (Summa Cum Laude), Northwestern University, 2010
  • J.D. (Order of the Coif), UCLA Law School, 2013
  • M.A. Sociology, UCLA, 2018

Fields of Study

Gender and Work, Sexual Harassment, Medical Sociology

Publications

Advisors

  • Abigail Saguy