Éva Fodor
Associate Professor
Gender Studies
Central European University
Hungary
Biography
Eva Fodor is associate professor of Gender Studies and is currently the Pro-Rector for the Social Sciences and Humanities at the CEU. She has a PhD in Sociology from the University of California in Los Angeles and works in the field of comparative social inequalities. She is interested in how and why gender differences in the labor market and elsewhere are reshaped, renegotiated and reproduced in different societies. Her book, “Working Difference” compares the organizing principles and everyday practices of state socialist and capitalist gender regimes in Hungary and Austria between the late 1940s and 1990s. A more recent research project compares post-communist EU members states and examines the relationship between gender differences in poverty and the ways in which countries are integrated into the global capitalist economy. Her current research interest include the foster care system in Hungary and the ways in which foster parents conceptualize work as they are raising children and negotiating their relationship with state authorities and birth parents. In yet another research strand she explores the gendered construction of the ideal work in the finance sector as well as the experience of the motherhood penalty among professional and working class women. She uses a variety of methods for her analysis, including historical archival research, qualitative interviews and high tech quantitative analyses of large datasets.
Research Interest
Gender and work, social inequality, poverty, social policy and welfare regimes, communist and post-communist societies, gender policy in a global/ European Union setting, research methods and methodologies.
Publications
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Fodor É, Balogh A. Back to the Kitchen: Gender Role Attitudes in 13 East European Countries. Journal of Family Research. 2010;22(3):289-307.
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Glass C, Fodor É. Public Maternalism Goes to Market: Recruitment, Promotion and Hiring in Hungary. Gender & Society. 2011;25(1):5-26.
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Fodor É, Lane L, Schippers J, van der Lippe T. Gender Differences in Quality of Life. In: Back-Wicklung M, der Lippe TV, den Dulk L, Doornie-Huskies A, editors. Quality of Life and Work in Europe: Theory, Practice, Policy. London: Palgrave; 2011. p. 149-65.