#  Keiko Hirao (Sophia University), The True Story of ‘Women’s Empowerment’ in Japan: Unexpected Consequences of Work and Family Policies 

 



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 **October 13, 2015** 

 12:30PM - 02:00PM EDT 

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 **Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street**  



 

 



 

   ![Keiko Hirao](/sites/g/files/omnuum8416/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/us-japan/files/hirao.cropped.jpg?itok=o54HdIOh) 

 

  
**[Keiko Hirao  ](http://www.genv.sophia.ac.jp/english/research/hirao_office.html)**Visiting Scholar in Sociology, Harvard University; Professor, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Sophia University**[Poster](http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/files/us-japan/files/15_10_13.hirao_.pdf)**

Moderator: **[Mary Brinton  ](http://scholar.harvard.edu/brinton/home)**Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology and Chair of Sociology, Harvard University

*Co-sponsored by Department of Sociology*

Special Series on Common Problems of Advanced Democracies



 

 



 

 

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