History of Science ON CALL: Chelsea Szendi Schieder about COVID-19 and Gender Equality

In this "History of Science ON CALL" video, historian Chelsea Szendi Schieder associates the term "feminisation" with the coronavirus pandemic, showing which effects COVID-19 - and more generally epidemics in society - can have on traditionally gendered domains.

Knowledge is one of the most important resources for people dealing with crises and the humanities are mobilizing to address the COVID-19 pandemic. History of Science ON CALL is a project of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. It aggregates and amplifies two streams of information—Research and Education—relevant to crises, including chronic disasters from the perspective of humanities and social sciences. The Research stream consists of short-format video interviews by MPIWG scholars, alumni, and collaborators highlighting how historical perspectives are crucial to the understanding of contemporary crises.

Chelsea Szendi Schieder is a historian of contemporary Japan and an Associate Professor in the School of Economics at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan. She writes about protest, women, violence, and Japan for academic and general audiences. Her articles on women and activism have appeared in Monthly Review, Dissent, and World Policy Journal. Her work also includes Co-Ed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left (Duke University Press, Forthcoming 2021), on the gendered politics of protest in the 1960s in Japan.