JS-5
Women’s Careers and the Process of Civilization

Abstract Submissions Closed

Wednesday, 24 February 2021: 09:00-10:30
Location:

RC20 Comparative Sociology (host committee)
RC32 Women, Gender and Society
RC33 Logic and Methodology in Sociology
RC56 Historical Sociology

Language: English

Session Type: Oral


              Components of gender inequality in careers such as educational attainment, occupational promotion, child-rearing expectations and household duties were discussed in the area of comparative and historical sociology at ISA 2018 Toronto. A number of papers from various continents showed that career-based gender inequality is tragically common throughout this world. This joint session intends to deepen these discussions by suggesting an approach from the viewpoint of the process of civilization. Among various lines of inquiry in comparative and historical sociology, this viewpoint—be that of Elias or not—is essential. Although women’s issues have not been centered in the employment of this perspective, its key terms such as violence, manners, established-outsiders relations, power relations, network, location, system of relationships, environmental challenges, and ungendering are both significant and effective in analyzing career-based gender inequalities. The questions could facilitate a research path to address these issues: How will the process of civilization transform gender inequality in the future? How can present gender equality be understood in the process of civilization? How has the process of civilization invented gender inequality in the past? Research responding to these questions will highlight methods by which we can overcome current obstacles of inequality.

             This session welcomes papers contributing to these issues, especially those that attention to methodological discussions on qualitative, quantitative, mixed, process-oriented and related methodologies.

Session Organizers:
Akiko NAGAI, Japan Women's University, Japan, nagaia@fc.jwu.ac.jp
Fumiya ONAKA, Japan Women's University, Japan, fonaka@fc.jwu.ac.jp
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