Cecilia L. Ridgeway is the Lucie Stern Professor of Social Sciences, Emerita, in the sociology department at Stanford university. She is particularly interested in the role that social hierarchies in everyday social relations play in the larger processes of stratification and inequality in a society. Much of her research focuses on interpersonal status hierarchies, which are hierarchies of esteem and influence, and the significance of these hierarchies for inequalities based on gender, race, and social class. One of her ongoing research focus is the role of interactional processes, including status processes, in preserving gender inequality despite major changes in the socioeconomic organization of society. Her publications include “Status: Why Is It Everywhere? Why Does It Matter?” and “Framed By Gender: How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World”. She has received the Outstanding Recent Contribution Award at Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association, Outstanding Reference Source Award at American Library Association, and Jesse Bernard Award for distinguished career contributions to the study of gender at American Sociological Association. She served as the President of the American Sociological Association in 2012-13.