Kazuo Yamaguchi

Ralph Lewis Professor, University of Chicago (Japan)

Kazuo Yamaguchi

Ralph Lewis Professor, University of Chicago (Japan)

Biography

Kazuo Yamaguchi is Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He was department chair in 2008-2011, and was Hanna Holborn Gray Professor in 2005-2013. Yamaguchi is the author of Gender Inequality in the Japanese Workplace and Employment (2019) from Springer. Its Japanese version published in 2017 received the 2017 Nikkei Book-culture Award in Economics, and the 2017 Showa Women’s University’s Book Award on Gender-culture Studies. He also authored a fantasy novel in Japanese (2008), entitled Diversity, on the theme of valuing diversity, which was thereafter translated and published in Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.  

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