Peggy Stockdale

Peggy (Margaret) Stockdale, Ph.D., is an academic affiliate with Resolution Economics, where she provides expert services in the company’s employment discrimination group. A professor emerita of Psychology at Indiana University-Indianapolis, and an industrial and organizational (I/O) psychologist with more than thirty-five years of experience, Dr. Stockdale addresses a range of issues related to gender, race, and age discrimination; sexual harassment; organizational culture; and retaliatory behavior. She has testified in multiple employment discrimination matters, including class actions.

Dr. Stockdale directs the Women in Work Laboratory (WoW Lab), which conducts and disseminates research focusing on gender-related issues in the workplace and their intersections with race, age and other class characteristics. Her recent work extends into DEI audits, organizational culture, and broader challenges related to workplace misconduct. Her expertise spans human resources and organizational psychology research, including job analysis, personnel selection, promotion, compensation, turnover, workplace diversity, leadership, and social issues at work.

She is the coauthor or coeditor of five books—including The Psychology and Management of Workplace Diversity, Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, and Sex Discrimination in the Workplace: Multidisciplinary Perspectives—and has published more than sixty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on topics such as sexual harassment, sex discrimination, occupational segregation, work-family balance, and workplace policy. Dr. Stockdale has served on the editorial boards of several academic and professional journals.

At Indiana University-Indianapolis, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on workplace diversity, gender issues in the workplace, ethics and diversity in psychology, personnel staffing, and social science research methods. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.