About
Jiyeon (pronounced jee-yawn) Lee is a PhD student in sociology at the University of Michigan. Broadly interested in the intersection of gender and the state, Jiyeon’s work has centered on how gendered ideals of citizenship shape access to rights and resources, particularly within fertility-declining pronatalist states. During her PhD, she seeks to investigate this question through the lens of motherhood, focusing on how the coalition between the state, market, and scientific institutions constructs norms around motherhood and parenting, whether and how these norms influence fertility decisions across different social groups, as well as mothers’ participation in the labor market.
