Beyond work-life balance: A feminist anthropological approach to gender equality

这一研究项目旨在考察在女性化、私密的日常生活领域培育的实践和价值观如何塑造日本男性化的公共空间和政治工作实践，以建立一种超越“工作与生活平衡”的性别平等方法，以重新评估工作本身对家庭的价值。通过揭示私人、家庭和私密生活中出现的实践和价值观如何影响公共政策制定过程，该项目旨在重新评估通常被认为是工作中的女性领域。该项目旨在为提出关于性别平等的替代政策提供依据。由于首席研究人员被调到海外研究机构，该项目不得不终止。然而，在终止之前的有限时间内，我取得了以下成果：1)我与大学的学者进行了初步研究，采用了图形记录、照片语音访谈和协作民族志的创新方法。初步研究揭示了这些方法的有效性，并使我为方法论创新研究奠定了基础。2)我以博客文章的形式发表了上述研究结果，从而促进了知识的公开传播。3)我受邀在2021年澳大利亚国立大学人类学系的方法与理论研讨会上发表了关于方法论创新的演讲。因此，我为人类学领域的国际知识共享做出了贡献。

This research project set out to examine how practices and values cultivated in the feminized, private spheres of everyday lives shape the masculinized, public spaces and practices of political work in Japan to build an approach to gender equality that goes beyond “work-life balance” to revalue home in work itself. By revealing how practices and values that emerge from private, domestic, and intimate lives inform public policymaking processes, the project aimed to revalue what is often considered the feminine domains in work. The project aimed to provide a basis to propose alternative policies on gender equality.The project had to be terminated due to the principal researcher's relocation to an overseas research institution. Within the limited timeframe before the termination, however, the following outcomes were achieved:1)I conducted preliminary research with academics in universities, employing the innovative methodologies of graphic recording, photovoice interviews, and collaborative ethnographies. The preliminary research revealed the effectiveness of these methodologies and allowed me to build a foundation for methodologically innovative research.2)I published the results of the above research as blog articles, thereby facilitating the public dissemination of knowledge.3) I was invited to speak about the methodological innovations at the Australian National University Department of Anthropology's Method and Theory Workshop in 2021. I thereby contributed to the international knowledge sharing in the field of anthropology.