Advancing Research on Gender Inequalities: A Life Course Perspective

Despite rapid progress from the 1970’s to the early 2000’s, gender inequalities in income, wealth, occupational status, political representation, and time spent in unpaid care and domestic labour, persist. Identifying effective ways to reform this social injustice has proven difficult. Gender stratification occurs at multiple levels of the social ecology, from the (trans)national through to the individual. Adding further complexity, gender stratification is a dynamic process that unfolds across the course of individual lives. For this session, we invite the submission of innovative, empirical papers that examine gender inequality and ways to reduce it. Studies that that leverage life course principles and incorporate data from multiple points in time or comparative analyses are strongly encouraged.