Gay Young

Gay Young, a professor of Sociology at American University in Washington, DC, has a longstanding focus on gender and development (GAD). She has received grants from the National Science Foundation for research in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and for advancing the critical use of international statistics and data on women and gender for the purpose of measuring and accounting for gender inequality in transnational context. As the recipient of a Fulbright Research Grant she studied the challenges to militarized masculinity presented by activities of Israeli feminist/women’s peace groups. A current project involves analysis of structural influences on the capacity of women doing sex work in southern India to engage in practices that protect them from HIV.