Weeden studies income inequality, the gender wage gap, and what determines the professions that different people enter and the academic majors that students select.
[5] The article won the 2004 Richard S. Scott Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the Organizations, Occupations, and Work section of the American Sociological Association.
[6] In a 2014 paper, "Overwork and the Slow Convergence in the Gender Gap in Earnings" in the American Sociological Review, Weeden and Youngjoo Cha used data from the Current Population Survey between 1979 and 2009 to study why women's increasing participation and expertise in the labor market has not made more of an impact in decreasing the gender wage gap.
[7] This paper won the 2015 Outstanding Article Award from the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section of the American Sociological Association.
[8] Weeden also contributed a chapter, called "Profiles of Change: Sex Segregation in the United States, 1910–2000", to Maria Charles and David B. Grusky's volume Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Men and Women, which won the 2005 Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the Organizations, Occupations, and Work section of the American Sociological Association.