Author: Mariko Lin Chang

Dr. Mariko Chang is the author of the new book, Shortchanged: Why Women Have Less Wealth and What Can Be Done About It. She is also the main author of the Insight Center’s report “Lifting as We Climb Women of Color, Wealth, and America’s Future” and coauthor of "At Rope's End: Single Women Mothers, Wealth and Assets in the U.S." published by the Women of Color Policy Network. Dr. Chang has a PhD in Sociology from Stanford University and was an Associate Professor of Sociology at Harvard University from 1998 to 2007 where she published work on occupational sex segregation across countries, the use of social networks for gathering financial information, and began her work on the gender wealth gap. To help raise awareness of the wealth gap, she maintains a website that provides data and other information on wealth, assets, and debt for public policy makers, the media, researchers, and organizations that address economic security.