Meguro Yoriko

Executive director, Gender Action Platform (GAP); professor emeritus, Sophia University. Born in 1938. Earned her PhD in sociology from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. Taught Japan’s first college course on the sociology of women at Sophia University in 1974. Has served as chair of the Japan Society of Family Sociology, alternate representative of Japan to the United Nations General Assembly, and representative of Japan to the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Established GAP in 2011. Co-editor of Shōshika no jendā bunseki (A Gender Analysis of the Falling Birthrate) and Yuragu dansei no jendā ishiki—shigoto, kazoku, kaigo (Men’s Gender Attitudes in Transition: Work, Family, Nursing Care).