Comparative and Historical Sociology of Women’s Careers: In the Midst of Great Changes

Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 15:00-16:45
Location: SJES006 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
RC20 Comparative Sociology (host committee)
RC56 Historical Sociology
RC32 Women, Gender and Society

Language: English

A number of papers were submitted to the joint session “Comparative and Historical Sociology of Women’s Careers” in ISA World Congress 2018 in Toronto which led to a special issue on Comparative Sociology. After that, however, there occurred great changes that happen once every few decades, or are unprecedented for humankind (e.g., large-scale infectious diseases, rapid spread of the means of teleconferencing, a war involving many major powers, beginning of diversity campaigns in public domains.) So far, these changes have had a tremendous impact on women's lives. In some cases, they have triggered international, interregional, or domestic immigration. In others, women have been suffering from serious damage from the war or, on the contrary, actively participated in it. Furthermore, there are dramatic changes in roles, spatial positions, and support systems within communities, workplaces, and schools. This session intends to reconsider the same topic focusing on multiple case studies, and in both historical and comparative studies, which will provide a description and explanation of the phenomena. It will also provide suggestions for policies aimed at improving this grimmer situation than 6 years ago. It welcomes papers concentrating on this subject, regardless of background or conclusions.
Session Organizer:
Fumiya ONAKA, Japan Women's University, Japan
Oral Presentations
Gender Inequalities and Internationalization Practices in Scientific Careers
Marcia CANDIDO RANGEL, University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal; Thais FRANÇA, Cies-Iscte, Iscte, Portugal
From the Job’s Worth to the Person’s Price: Pay Equity Law and the Rise of Market-Based Pay Practices
Laura ADLER, USA
Studying No Children? Factors and Diversity of Event Sequences in Women’s Female Educational and Childbearing Trajectories
Anna CHERVYAKOVA, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Russian Federation; Alla MAKARENTSEVA, Center “INSAP” of the Institute of Applied Economic Research of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Russian Federation; Maria ZHARAKHOVICH, Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation; Tatiana GUDKOVA, Center for Comprehensive Social Policy Studies, HSE University, Russian Federation; Svetlana BIRYUKOVA, Comprehensive Social Policy Studies, HSE University, Russian Federation
An Intersectional Analysis of the Justification of Differential Rights in Women's Access to Paid Work in the World Values Survey and the European Values Study (2021)
Pilar RODRIGUEZ MARTINEZ, University of Almeria, Spain; Francisco VILLEGAS LIROLA, Universidad de Almería, Spain
Negotiating with the Patriarchy: The Exercise of Public Authority By Women Public Servants in Pakistan
Sameen A. Mohsin ALI, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Is Community Work in China Really a 'women's' Job? a Case Study from Gansu Province ,China
Heli XU, Beijing Normal University, China; Wei ZHAO, Beijing Normal University, China
Navigating the Global Landscape: The Role of Social MEDIA in Career Choices for Young Indian Women
Sumanth SHANKARAYYA HIREMATH, Rani Channamma University, Belagavi. Karnataka, India
Distributed Papers
Cultural Values and Gender Role Perceptions in China and Mexico: Academic Mothers during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lixing WANG, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Navigating Femininity in Female-Dominated Work: A Comparative Study of Women's Labor Experiences in the Japanese and American Beauty Industries
Riho NAGAYAMA, Japan
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