Empirical Study on Women's Voluntary Activities for `Post-Disaster Reconstructin' from Gender Perspectives

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26360037
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Gender
• Research Institution: Iwate University
• Principal Investigator: HORI Kumi 岩手大学, 男女共同参画推進室, 准教授 (30714860)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 女性 / 自発的活動 / 復興 / 東日本大震災 / 記録 / ジェンダー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research documented women’s post-disaster activities including soup kitchen, relief distribution and questionnaire on women’s experiences through interviewing women’s groups and individual members of such groups which have engaged in post-disaster reconstruction support activities in Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures. Women in disaster-affected areas have empowered themselves and broaden a possibility of realization of gender equal society in post disaster through their activities. This includes women who had not participated in social activities or who had not perceived gender issues as their own before the Great East Japan Disaster.

Free Research Field

ジェンダー研究