Research Interests: Gender and racial inequalities in work, occupations, and wealth; family; intersectionality; qualitative methods; quantitative methods; economic sociology

Charlotte O’Herron is a Doctoral Student in Sociology & Social Policy. Her research interests include gender and racial inequalities in work, occupations, and wealth, as well as work-family intersections.

Before starting her Ph.D., Charlotte received a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School in 2021. Her award-winning master’s project used mixed methods to research the challenges facing women “solopreneurs” in Boston during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her project advised the Boston Mayor’s Office of Small Business Development on policies to include marginalized solopreneurs, such as home-based childcare providers, in the city’s economic recovery efforts.

Charlotte also worked for several years as a Research Analyst at MDRC. There, she conducted quantitative and qualitative research for a large-scale randomized control trial of an economic stability and parenthood program for fathers. She received her B.A. from Middlebury College.