Mary Brinton's guest appearances

Mary Brinton

Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

Jo Boaler

Alberto Alesina

Jennifer Lawless

Robert Jensen

Valerie Hudson

Iris Bohnet

Jessica Clarke

Trina Jones

Soledad Prillaman

Bina Agarwal

Zoe Kinias

Stephanie Creary

Michela Carlana

Sabrina Karim

Shauna Shames

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Only two OECD countries continue to exhibit an M-shaped curve of female labor force participation across the life cycle: Japan and South Korea. In this seminar, Mary Brinton analyzes how labor market structure and workplace norms influence this pattern. Her analysis draws on data from over 160 in-depth interviews with highly-educated Japanese and Korean men and women of childbearing age, and demonstrates how working conditions exert a powerful influence on gendered patterns of behavior at home and in the labor market. Mary Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Only two OECD countries continue to exhibit an M-shaped curve of female labor force participation across the life cycle: Japan and South Korea. In this seminar, Mary Brinton analyzes how labor market structure and workplace norms influence this pattern. Her analysis draws on data from over 160 in-depth interviews with highly-educated Japanese and Korean men and women of childbearing age, and demonstrates how working conditions exert a powerful influence on gendered patterns of behavior at home and in the labor market. <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/brinton/home" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mary Brinton</a>, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Babies, Work, or Both? Highly-Educated Women’s Employment and Fertility in East Asia with Mary Brinton

This seminar explores the assumption of many cross-national studies that gender-role attitudes fall along a single continuum between traditional and egalitarian. Brinton analyzes over-time data from 18 European countries and identifies trajectories of attitudinal change. Brinton demonstrates that while traditional gender-role attitudes have precipitously and uniformly declined, European nations are not converging towards one dominant egalitarian model but instead are diverging across three distinct varieties of egalitarianism.  Speaker: Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

This seminar explores the assumption of many cross-national studies that gender-role attitudes fall along a single continuum between traditional and egalitarian. Brinton analyzes over-time data from 18 European countries and identifies trajectories of attitudinal change. Brinton demonstrates that while traditional gender-role attitudes have precipitously and uniformly declined, European nations are not converging towards one dominant egalitarian model but instead are diverging across three distinct varieties of egalitarianism. Speaker: Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Two Decades of Gender-Role Attitude Change in Europe with Mary Brinton

Claudia Goldin

Gender Inequality persists to varying degrees across post-industrial economies. The seminar introduces the new Weatherhead Initiative at Harvard to study comparative gender inequality in OECD countries and outlines some of the major scholarly and policy challenges relating to the structure of work and its articulation with the family. Speakers: Mary Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology; Department Chair, Department of Sociology, Harvard University and Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Gender Inequality: A Comparative View of the Challenges Ahead with Mary Brinton and Claudia Goldin