Gendered Labor and War

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

What is the relationship between war, gender, and labor? War is one of the most gendered processes in global politics, with gender theorized to affect the onset, behavior, and conclusion of conflict. Using multiple methodological approaches and contemporary and historical data, this panel focuses mainly on the gendered labor dimensions of war, focusing particularly on the intersection between armed conflict and labor (either as combatants or civilians) and its implications for technological innovation, warfighting, labor force participation, and post-conflict aid to veterans.

Sub Unit

• Division 19: International Security 

Individual Presentations

• Female Rebels and Women’s Post-conflict Economic Empowerment - Jakana Thomas, University of California San Diego

• Nuclear Weapons and the Gendered Division of Labor - Kendrick Kuo, Naval War College; Shira Eini Pindyck, Naval War College

• Innovation, Gender, and War - Megan A. Stewart, University of Michigan

• Recruited Men, Breadwinning Women, and the `Re-gendering' of Postwar Societies - Jeongmin Park, Princeton University

Chair

• Sabrina Karim Cornell University

Discussants

• Mark Dincecco University of Michigan

• Dawn L. Teele Johns Hopkins University