Gender, Work, and Family in East Asia
Examines contemporary East Asia (Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China) through interdisciplinary frameworks to analyze intersections of gender, race, citizenship, class, and sexuality.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.70 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Explain how institutional processes, including the labor market, family, and education generate, maintain, and change the cultural understandings of gender.
List past and current studies on how and why female labor force participation and gender wage gap are different across Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and China.
Answer the question of “Can women in East Asia have it all?” and of how social development influence women’s aspirations and choices, producing the patterned behaviors that we observe.
Develop a comparative lens in constructing your own argument on whether – if so, how - different speeds of social change and development influence institutions and cultures of a society.
Draw a conceptual map of cultural and structural foundations of gender inequality in the context of East Asia.
Source: UW Guide 1· UW Guide 2
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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.70 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).
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Topics
- Contemporary East Asia: South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and China
- Intersections of inequality: gender, race/ethnicity, citizenship, class, and sexuality
- Female labor force participation and gender wage gaps
- Institutional processes: labor market, family, and education
Skills
- Explain how institutional processes generate, maintain, and change cultural understandings of gender.
- List studies on female labor force participation and gender wage gaps in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and China.
- Develop a comparative lens to construct arguments about social change and development.
- Draw a conceptual map of cultural and structural foundations of gender inequality in East Asia.
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