Larra Rucker

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University of Arkansas

Faculty Researcher

4 h-index 13 pubs 60 cited

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Larra Rucker's research investigates issues of representation and equity within U.S. public sector employment, with a particular focus on school districts. Her work examines gender-based occupational segregation and pay inequities, as well as ethnic and racial representation in leadership positions. Rucker also studies early childhood education policy, analyzing the alignment between state licensing requirements and teacher qualifications. She has published on topics including women's representation in employment categories, gender-based inequalities in administrative positions, and variations in lead educator qualifications in early childhood settings. Rucker has collaborated with researchers including Brinck Kerr, Valerie H. Hunt, Melissa Taylor, and Anna Zajicek at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

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h-index: 4
Publications: 13
Citations: 60

Selected Publications

Intersectional Representation Among Employees in U.S. School Districts (2025)

Journal of Social Equity and Public Administration 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Ethnic/Racial Representation in Leadership Positions in US School Districts, 2002–2014: Are School Districts Achieving Parity? (2025)

Social Science Quarterly 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Half-Baked by Design? A Four-State Analysis of Gender-Based Occupational Segregation and Pay Inequities (2025)

Public Personnel Management 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Women’s Representation in Employment Categories in U.S. School Districts, 2002 to 2014: Are School Districts Achieving Parity? (2024)

Public Administration Quarterly 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
How policy can help prepare early childhood teachers: the alignment between state childcare licensing policy and teacher qualification attainment (2022)

Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
Variation in State Early Childhood Lead Educator Qualifications: Pre-service Versus In-service Qualification, Professional Organization, and Geographical Proximity (2021)

Early Childhood Education Journal 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
The <i>what, how</i>, and <i>who</i>, of early childhood professional development (PD): Differential associations of PD and self-reported beliefs and practices (2020)

Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education 21 citations DOI OpenAlex
You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby, but You Still Have a Long Way to Go: Gender-Based Pay Inequality in U.S. State Bureaucracies, 1995-2015 (2019)

Public Personnel Management 12 citations DOI OpenAlex
Two Tales of Cities: Revisiting Sex-Based Occupational Segregation in U.S. Municipal Bureaucracies, 1991-2015 (2019)

Public Personnel Management 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Reconsidering Sex-Based Occupational Segregation and Agency Missions: An Analysis of U.S. State Bureaucracies (1987-2015) Using Two Different Thresholds (2019)

Administration & Society 10 citations DOI OpenAlex