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Helena Sumiko Hirata

Helena Sumiko Hirata

CNRS

Helena Sumiko Hirata is research director emerita at French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and associate professor at Sociology Department, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Main research topics: Sociology of employment, work and gender; globalization and sexual division of labour; care and care labour in a comparative perspective. Her main publications are: The Sexual Division of Labour Re-examined, with D. Kergoat, (edited by) J. Jenson, J. Laufer, M. Maruani, The Gendering of Inequalities: Women, Men and Work, Aldershot, Burlington/Ashgate, 2000, p. 69-79; Dictionnaire critique du féminisme (ed.) With F. Laborie, H. Le Doaré, D. Senotier. Paris: PUF, 2000, 2nd ed. Paris; PUF, 2004 (Japanese transl., Tokyo: Fujiwara Shoten, 2002); Être chômeur à Paris, São Paulo, Tokyo, with D. Demazière, N.Araujo Guimarães, K. Sugita, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2013; Le care: théories et pratiques, Paris: La Dispute, 2021.