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*New* FemQuant Launches Spring Seminar Series

Posted: 1/8/2026 (Local Events)

FemQuant is a network of researchers whose goal is to explore the use of feminist theory in current quantitive, empirical research across the social sciences, including sociology, economics, demography, social policy, psychology, health and international relations. They are hosting a monthly seminar series via zoom with scholars from around the world. The program of online FemQuant events for the coming term is now available, with FemQuant’s first event of the new year taking place next week on January 14. As always, all FemQuant events are free, online and open to all, but registration is required.

January – Research Seminar – Wednesday 14 January 2026
8-9:00 (EST) / 13-14:00 (GMT) / 14-15:00 (CET) (Check time in your time zone)

Outsider Orbit: Segmentation of Employment Trajectories and Feminisation of Outsiders in South Korea
Dr. Hyojin Seo, King’s College London

This paper investigates the labour market segmentation patterns based on employment trajectories using group-based multi-trajectory modelling on Korean Labor & Income Panel Study data. We find clear evidence of a segmented labour market, where outsiders have distinct employment trajectories from insiders, and women’s overrepresentation in outsider trajectories. Furthermore, outsiders are trapped in an ‘outsider orbit’, indicating a structural barrier that limits women to outsider jobs in Korea.

Hyojin Seo is a gender and labour market researcher, with expertise on gendered precarity and the role of institutions shaping gendered labour market patterns in Europe and East Asia. She is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at King’s College London, having recently been granted a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship to investigate gendered experience of precarity in workers’ long-term career amid digitalisation in the UK and South Korea.

February – Research Seminar – Thursday 12 February 2026
10-11:00 (EST) / 15-16:00 (GMT) / 16-17:00 (CET) (Check time in your time zone)

Deroutinization of Labor and Second Birth in West Germany: The Moderating Role of Childcare
Dr. Honorata Bogusz, University of Warsaw

Further details to be announced soon.

Honorata Bogusz is an empirical economist and demographer employed in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Labour Market and Family Dynamics (LabFam), Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw. Her research interests lie in inequalities related to labor, gender, family, and LGBTQ+ issues.

March – Conversation – Tuesday 3 March 2026
10-11:00 (EST) / 15-16:00 (GMT) / 16-17:00 (CET) (Check time in your time zone)

A Conversation with FemDem: The Feminist Demography Collective

This event is an opportunity to be in conversation with folks from the FemDem collective, hear about their plans, and chat about the future of feminist demographic research.

The Feminist Demography Collective is a group of scholars that seeks to advance the field of demography by critically assessing the historical roots of the field, pushing rigorous research informed by feminist theories, and demanding accountable research practices that are human- and community-centered.

May – Research Seminar

Chae Eun Kim, Cornell University

Further details to be announced soon.

June – Panel – Tuesday 23 June 2026
10 -11:00 (EDT) / 15-16:00 (BST) / 16-17:00 (CEST) (Check in your time zone)

Panel: Navigating the Peer Review Process with Queer/Feminist Quantitative Work Dr. Ridhi Kashyap, Dr. Rin Reczek, & Dr. Wendy Manning

In this panel, we will have a moderated discussion about the peer review processes with three scholars who have insights from perspectives as an editor, author, and reviewer of feminist/queer quantitative work. We will be collecting questions from audience members in the registration form and doing live Q&A during the event.

Ridhi Kashyap is Professor of Demography & Computational Social Science at University of Oxford, Rin Reczek is Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University, and Wendy Manning is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Bowling Green State University.