Research
RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS
Work and family, gender and family, education, comparative family, environment and sustainable lifestyle, environmental sociology
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
- Abe Fellowship, (Social Science Research Council), December 2006 - September 2008
- Fulbright Fellowship: Researcher Program, August 2006 - December 2006
- SSJ Award for Outstanding Papers, (University of Tokyo, Institute of Social Science), 2005
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (14510219), 2002-2005
- Social Science Research Council Japan Program: Dissertation Fellowship 1996 - 1997
- University of Notre Dame Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1996 - 1997
- John J. Kane Award: University of Notre Dame, September 1996
- Clogg Scholarship for ICPSR Summer Program, June 1996
- National Science Foundation Grant for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research, August 1995 (SBR9521033)
- Fulbright Scholarship: Graduate Program, 1992 – 1997
- Research Grant from the Labor Research Center, Tokyo, Japan, August 1994
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
[BOOKS]
- Hirao, Keiko. 2015. Invisible Hand and Invisible Heart: A Horizon of Work and Family. Tokyo: Sophia University Press (Japanese)
- Hirao, Keiko. 1991. Child Rearing War Front. Tokyo: Chobunsha. (Japanese)
[ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS]
- Hirao, Keiko. 2016. "Gender and Environment." in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies: Wiley-Blackwell. (English)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2015. "Gender Equality at the Bottom: Unexpected Consequences of the Family Policy in Japan." Pp. 76-87 in International Family Policies, edited by Cuneyt Dinc. Istanbul: The Journalists and Writers Foundation Press. (English)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2014. "Gender and Topology of Body" Pp. 139-54 Thinking of Body as Intelligence, edited by Mamoru Suzuki. Tokyo: Gakken Marketing. (Japanese)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2012. "Competitors in the Nest: Gender, Sibship Structure and Educational Investment in Japan and Korea." Pp. 111-32 in Changing Families in Northeast Asia: Comparative Analysis of China, Korea, and Japan, edited by Kunio Ishihara and Rokuro Tabuchi. Tokyo: Sophia University Press. (English)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2012. " Proliferation of ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’." Journal of Environmental Studies 7: 67-81. (Japanese)
- Keiko Hirao (with Ikeda, Kazuhiro). 2011. "The Discourse on Climate Change: the Mediator of Information and Events." Journal of Environmental Studies 6:47-58. (Japanese)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2010. "Work Histories and Family Events: Dynamic Analyses of JGSS-2009 Life Course Study." Pp. 205-216 in JGSS Monographs No.10, edited by Institute of Regional Studies Osaka University of Commerce and Institute of Social Science University of Tokyo: JGSS Research Center. (Japanese)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2010. “Elaborating Gender Differences in Pro-environmental Activities.” Journal of Environmental Studies 5: 5-15. (Japanese)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2008 "How Do We Measure Educational Attainment? Sibling Composition and Educational Attainment of Women in Japan and Korea." Pp. 196-209 in Comparative Research on Changing Family Structure in Northeast Asia: Japan, China, and Korea, edited by K. Ishihara and K. Hirao. Tokyo: Report for Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. (English)
- .Hirao, Keiko. 2008. "Changing Patterns of Educational Investment for Women in Japan." Kyoikushakaigaku kenkyu (Journal of Educational Sociology) 82: 89-107. (Japanese)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2008. "Effects of Sibship Size and Gender on Educational Attainment in Japan: Analyses of JGSS-2006." Pp. 33-44 in JGSS Monographs No.7, edited by Institute of Regional Studies at Osaka University of Commerce and Institute of Social Science at University of Tokyo: Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo. 2008. (English)
- Hirao, Keiko, Akiko Nagai, and Kazuyasu Sakamoto. 2007. “Educational Expenses of Japanese Household: 1989-1999." Pp. 231-45 in Kakeikenkyu Heno Apurochi (Approaches to Household Expenditure) edited by Kaku Wakui, Kyoto: Mineruba Shobo. (Japanese)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2007. “Work Attachment of College-Graduate Women: Are They Staying Longer?" Sophia 55, no. 4: 489-501. (Japanese)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2007. “Privatized Education Market and Maternal Employment in Japan.” Pp. 170-197 in Political Economy of Japan’s Low Fertility, edited by Frances McCall Rosenbluth. Stanford: Stanford University Press (English)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2007. “Contradictions in Maternal Roles in Contemporary Japan.” Pp. 51-83 in Working and Mothering in Asia: Images, Ideologies and Identities, edited by Theresa W. Devasahayam and Brenda S.A. Yeoh. Singapore: NIAS Press. (English)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2006. "Gender, Sibling, and Educational Attainment." Pp. 17-28 in Parents and Children, Siblings, and Support Network (Report on NFRJ03), edited by Keiichi Mizoguchi and Kanbara Fumiko. Tokyo: Japan Society of Family Sociology.
- Hirao, Keiko. 2005. "Who Returned to the Labor Market: Marriage, Childbirth and Living Arrangement with Parents." Japanese Journal of Family Sociology 17. (Japanese)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2005. Investment in Children and Maternal Employment. Tokyo: Report of the MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (14510219) (Primary Investigator: Hirao, Keiko) (Japanese)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2005. “Who Stayed in the Labor Market? The Effects of Marriage, Childbirth, Marital Cohorts, and Co-residence with Grandparents.” Pp. 61-76 in Changing Families in Post-War Japan, edited by Sonoko Kumagai and Takaharu Ookubo. Tokyo: Japan Society of Family Sociology. (Japanese)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2005. “Gender Gap in Investment in Higher Education.” Pp. 119-139 in Campus Life and College Renovation, edited by Kiyoshi Takeuchi. Tokyo: Sophia University Press. (Japanese)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2004. “Educational Strategies of Family and Maternal Employment.” Pp. 97-113 in Women's Labor Supply and Parent-Child Relations, edited by Yuki Honda. Tokyo: Keiso Shobo. (Japanese)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2004. “Gender Attitudes and Aspirations for the Future Life.” Pp. 58-63 in Students’ Lives in 12 Universities, 1997 and 2003, edited by Kiyoshi Takeuchi. Tokyo: Sophia University Printing Office. (Japanese)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2004. “Spatial Distribution of Residents with Higher Education in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area: 1960-2000.” Pp. 131-148 in Historical and Social Changes of Tokyo Metropolitan Suburbs, edited by Chiharu Ushijima. Tokyo: Report of the MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (13610226). (Japanese)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2003. “Use of Extra-School Services and Maternal Employment.” SSJ Data Archive Research Paper Series 2003-2:1-29. (Japanese)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2002. “Daily Support for Elderly Parents: Japan-U.S. Comparison.” Ningengaku Kiyo 32:123-141. (Japanese)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2002. “Gender, Generation and Conflicting Values.” Sophia 50:499-515. (Japanese)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2001. “Mothers as the Best Teachers: Japanese Motherhood and Early Childhood Education.” Pp. 180-203 in Women's Working Lives in East Asia, edited by Mary C. Brinton. Stanford: Stanford University Press. (English)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2001. “The Effect of Higher Education on the Rate of Labor-force Exit for Married Japanese Women.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 42: 413-433. (English)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2001. “Gender in Adolescence: Sports and School Culture.” Pp. 157-175, in Contemporary Culture and Sports, edited by Mamoru Suzuki and Rihito Yamamoto. Tokyo: Dowa Shoin. (Japanese)
- Hirao, Keiko. 2001. “Japan-U.S. Comparison on Intergenerational Relations: Help and Assistance Provided for Elderly Parents.” In International Comparison on Family Structure: Producing and Using Public Micro-Data Sets, edited by Kunio Ishihara. Tokyo: Report of the MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research. (Japanese)
- Hirao, Keiko. 1999. “Who Stays in the Labor Market?” The Japanese Journal of Labour Studies 471: 29-41. (Japanese)
- Hirao, Keiko. 1999. “Single Parents and Child Well-being in the United States.” Sophia 48: 209-217. (Japanese)
[BOOK REVIEWS]
- Nukaga, Misako. Ekkyousuru nihonjin kazokuto kyouiku (Japanese Family and Education in Transgression.) Kikan Kakeikeizai Kenkyuu. 44: 2013.
- Robertson, Thomas. The Malthusian Moment: Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism. Journal of Environmental Studies. 8: 2012.
- Kaori H. Okano. Young Women in Japan: Transition to Adulthood. Journal of Japanese Studies. 39(2): 2013.
- Watanabe, Hideki, Akihide Inaba, and Naoko Shimazaki. Gendai kazoku no kozo to henyo: (Structure and Change in Contemporary Japanese Families). Journal of Educational Sociology. 76: 2005.
- Strober, Myra H. and Agnes Miling Kaneko Chan. The Road Winds Uphill All the Way: Gender, Work, and Family in the United States and Japan. American Journal of Sociology. 106: 2000.
- White, Merry Isaacs. 2002. Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval. American Journal of Sociology. 109: 2003.
PAPERS DELIVERED AT MEETINGS
- “Lopsided Gender Equality: Work and Family Policy in Japan.” The VI International Conference of Work and Family, IESE Business School, University of Navara, Barcelona: July, 2015
- "Gender Equality at the Bottom: Unexpected Consequences of the Family Policy in Japan." International Family Conference III, Istanbul: November 2014.
- “Construction of the Environmental Problems: Biblio-Metric Analyses of the ‘Tragedy of the Commons’” XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama: July 2014.
- Chair, Session on Climate Change Responses in East Asia (RC24 Environment and Society), XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama: July 2014.
- “Discourse on the Climate Change” (with Koichi Hasegawa and Kazuhiro Ikeda). Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Environmental Sociology, Kantogakuin University: June 2011.
- "Emergence of a New Domestic Work? Gender and Pro-Environmental Activities in Japan" American Sociological Association, Atlanta: August 2010.
- “How did the Mass Media Problematized the Climate Change? ” (with Koichi Hasegawa, Kazuhiro Ikeda, and Tomomi Shinada) Annual Meeting of the Japan Sociological Association, Nagoya University: November 2010.
- “Changing Patterns of Educational Investment for Women in Japan” American Sociological Association, Boston: August 2008.
- “Sibling Composition and Educational Attainment of Women in Japan and Korea.” International Workshop on Family Structure and Relations: Collaborative Exploration of Micro-level Data Sets in Japan, China, and Korea, Meiji University, Tokyo: December 2007.
- “Contradictions in Maternal Roles in Contemporary Japan.” International Workshop on Working and Mothering: Asian Women Negotiating Work Challenges and Family Commitments, National University of Singapore, Singapore: January 2004.
- “Privatized Education Market and Maternal Employment in Japan.” American Sociological Association, Chicago: August 2002.
- “Japan-U.S. Comparison on Intergenerational Relations: Daily Care Provided for Parents.” Japan Association of Family Sociology, Tokyo: September 1999.
- “Hazard Analyses of Re-entry to the Labor Market after Marriage and Childbirth.” Annual Meeting of the Japan Sociological Association, Kobe: November 1998.
- “Education and Employment Behavior: Work Histories of Married Japanese Women.” Second Annual Asian Studies Conference, Tokyo: June 1998
- “Education and Work Histories for Married Japanese Women: Hazard Analyses of Labor-force Exit.” Japan Sociological Association, Chiba: November 1996.
- “Changing Utility of Daughters and Women's Human Capital Development: Japan as an Illustrative Case.” National Council on Family Relations, Washington, D.C.: November 1997
- “Changing Utility of Daughters and Women's Human Capital Development: Japan as an Illustrative Case.” American Sociological Association, Toronto: August 1997
- “Work and Family in International Perspective: Work Histories of Japanese Women.” Michigan Family Studies Seminar, University of Michigan, and Ann Arbor: October 1996.
- “The Effect of Education on the Rate of Labor-force Exit for Married Japanese Women.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York: August 1996.
- “Education War Front: Dilemmas of Motherhood in Japan.” Japan-U.S. Seminar on Comparative Education, Sapporo: July 1994.
INVITED LECTURES
- International Federation of Family Development Briefing at the United Nations Headquarters,
“Definition of Global Family Well-being Indicators.” New York, February 10, 2016 - Smith College, Program in East Asian Studies:
“The True Story of Women’s Empowerment in Japan: Unexpected Consequences of Work and Family Policies”
Cambridge, December, 2015. - Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
“The True Story of Women’s Empowerment in Japan: Unexpected Consequences of Work and Family Policies”
Cambridge, October, 2015. - US-Japan Council, Asian American Leadership Program
"Gender Roles and Family in Japan: Changes and Contradictions." Tokyo: November 2014, - Japan Foundation, Kakehashi Project
"Gender Roles and Family in Japan; Images and Realities." Tokyo: September-November 2014 - Journalists and Writers Foundation of Turkey
“Gender, Work and Family in Japan.” Istanbul: February 29, 2012. - International Woman’s Day Panel on Women and Society in Japan and Turkey,
“Women and Family in Japan.” Fatih University, Istanbul: March 8, 2012. - Invited Lecture, Jordan National Commission for Women,
Syrian International Academy for Training and Development
Iran-Japan Joint Roundtable on Women’s Issue
“Changing Families and Women in Japan,” October 2008 - Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:
Special Series on Common Problems of Industrial Democracies
"Changing Patterns of Educational Investment for Women in Japan" March 18, 2008 - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for East Asian Studies, April 19, 2007
- Yale University, Council on East Asian Studies, April 10, 2007
- University of Notre Dame, Department of Sociology, April 23, 2007
“Between Home and School: Family Educational Strategies and Maternal Employment in Japan” - University of Tokyo, Institute of Social Science, Information Center for Social Science Research In Japan
“Social Science and Public Use Data”, March 8, 2006 - Imaging Culture Research Institute (Konica Minolta), January 30, 2006
“Work and Family in Japan: Diversity and Challenges”