User:Shakaigaku Obasan

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If you are wondering about my username, it roughly translates to "middle-aged (female) Sociologist."

I am an [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E6%AF%8D%E3%81%95%E3%82%93#Japanese 小母さん] ([https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/obasan obasan]), who received a PhD in [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%A4%BE%E4%BC%9A%E5%AD%A6#Japanese 社会学] ([https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shakaigaku#Japanese shakaigaku]) from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, teaching in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at the George Washington University. I have a joint appointment in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration and the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, and I research about gender inequality, work, welfare states, and military.

My students and I have been participating in the Wiki Education Foundation program to improve the quality of articles related to gender and sexuality studies (see WikiProject Gender studies and LGBT studies).