(Gloria
A.) Gay Young (PhD University of Texas at Austin) has a longstanding
focus on gender and development which has led her to study a range
of issues, including the nature and consequences of women's labor
force participation in post-colonial societies - in Mexico, in particular
- as well as strategies for measuring gender inequality at the macro-social
level. She has lectured at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International
Scholars on the topic of gender and globalization in Mexico, and
her paper at the 100th annual meeting of the American Sociological
Association analyzed the consequences for Mexican women of their
participation in that country's export-led development project.
A grant from the National Science Foundation supported her field
work in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico which is the basis for her book (under
contract with Routledge) entitled Mexican Women's Feminized
Work and Democracy at Home: Gendering Globalization on the Ground.
Another grant from NSF was key to her collaboration with several
international as well as US-based colleagues on advancing the critical
use of international statistics and data on women and gender for
the purpose of measuring gender inequality. Other aspects of her
work on GAD include "introducing" Guadalajara Woman as a feminist
challenge to both Davos Man and Big Brother as well as editing a
special issue of the International Journal of Sociology and
Social Policy on key issues and directions for the sociology
of development. A more recent focus is gender, war and peace with
particular emphasis on the Middle East. From Spring 2002 through
Spring 2003, she was Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute of Women's
Studies, Bir Zeit University in the occupied Palestinian territory,
where she began analysis of GAD under conditions of conflict, and
in AY 2004-2005 she received a Fulbright Research Grant, hosted
by Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and carried out field research
on gender and the actions/discourse of Israeli peace groups. She
has served on the editorial board of Gender & Society,
and she is the Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program
at AU. |
