Sociology 699F: Gender & Social Change

Overviews

Reading: Huber and Mason

• Huber, 1990

• 5 Macro level changes explaining changes in gender equality
• Work and labor force participation
• Fertility
• Longitudinal analyses as the (only?) method
• Causal Direction in micro-macro analyses?

• Mason, 1986

• Complexities of studying gender stratification
• Gendered outcomes of interest
• Gendered outcomes among a range of macro theorists of gender

Micro-macro questions:

• Contextual versus compositional macro effects
• Longitudinal versus area-based analyses

Projects:

• Data
• US: PUMS, NLSY, and GSS
• International: DHS and ISSP
• India: HDPI and NSS
• Projects