Study on the fairness of the researchers' training process from the perspectives of class and gender

2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20730334
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: WATANABE Megumi Osaka University, 女性研究者キャリア・デザインラボ, 特任准教授 (60401577)
• Project Period (FY): 2008 – 2009
• Keywords: 教育社会学 / 階層 / ジェンダー

Research Abstract

Among the students, postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and researchers belonging to the several universities that cultivate the next generation of researchers in large numbers, I recruited those who were from a relatively lower socioeconomic group and obtained their life-histories by interviewing them. The findings suggest that a certain segment of society negatively affects the fairness of access to higher education and the researchers' training process in various aspects.