As of September 1, I have been appointed as a Research Fellow of the Center for Gender Studies at International Christian University. Although I have already been involved in collaborative research between the nonprofit organization Nijiiro Diversity and the Center for Gender Studies at International Christian University as a Research Member since October 2013, I am excited to continue working on the analysis of “niji VOICE” (Web Surveys on LGBT Issues and the Workplace Environment)!

このたび9月1日付けで、国際基督教大学ジェンダー研究センター研究員として任用されました。すでに2013年10月以来、特定非営利活動法人虹色ダイバーシティおよび国際基督教大学ジェンダー研究センターの共同研究に研究メンバーとして関わっていましたが、今後も「niji VOICE」（LGBTと職場環境に関するWebアンケート調査）の分析に取り組むことを楽しみにしています！

On Thursday, April 27, Brian Serafini will be presenting our joint work “Beyond the Urban Core: Examining Variation in Divorce Filing Rates Across the Rural-Urban Continuum” at the upcoming annual meeting of the Population Association of America. This paper is co-authored by Brian Serafini, Julie Brines, and Daiki Hiramori.

Title: Beyond the Urban Core: Examining Variation in Divorce Filing Rates Across the Rural-Urban Continuum

Abstract: Recent evidence has documented a rural-urban convergence in divorce rates, challenging the notion that marriage is more fragile in large metropolitan centers. Little research, however, has examined the correlates of divorce in non-metropolitan regions. We test whether county-level divorce filing rates vary along a continuum that captures rural-urban integration. We also test whether regional variation in divorce filing rates is a function of economic restructuring and “casualized” family relations, levels of religious conservatism and early family formation, or the flow of information and social capital between counties. Using 15 years of monthly data on divorce filings in Washington State, Minnesota, and Ohio, we find evidence that divorce filing rates are contingent on the extent that a county is integrated in metropolitan regions. However, how any why metropolitan integration affects county-level divorce filing rates depends largely on state of residence and whether or not the divorce involved young children.

My paper titled, “What Do Sexual/Gender Minority-Supportive Workplaces Look Like? Findings from the ‘Survey on LGBT Issues in the Workplace Environment'” has been published in the 561st issue of Labour Research.

• Hiramori, Daiki. 2017. “What Do Sexual/Gender Minority-Supportive Workplaces Look Like? Findings from the ‘Survey on LGBT Issues in the Workplace Environment.’” Labour Research 561:10-4. In Japanese.

このたび、『労働調査』2017年3月号に「性的マイノリティが働きやすい職場とは？――『LGBTに関する職場環境アンケート』の分析結果から」という論文が掲載されました。ぜひご覧ください！

• 平森大規，2017，「性的マイノリティが働きやすい職場とは？――『LGBTに関する職場環境アンケート』の分析結果から」『労働調査』561: 10-4．

My short article has been published in the latest issue of the CGS Newsletter! The article, available in both Japanese and English, is titled, “Do Numbers Lie? Reading Statistics on Sexual and Gender Minorities.”

このたび、CGSニューズレター最新号に短い記事が掲載されました！タイトルは「数字は嘘をつかない?――性的マイノリティに関する統計データの読み方・考え方」で、日英両言語で読むことができます。

Next month, I am attending the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America to present my poster “Social-Institutional Structures That Matter: An Exploratory Analysis of Sexual/Gender Minority Status and Income in Japan.” This work is based on my MA thesis, and I am currently rewriting it for publication.

Title: Social-Institutional Structures That Matter: An Exploratory Analysis of Sexual/Gender Minority Status and Income in Japan

Abstract: While most previous studies examining the effects of sexual orientation on earnings rely on lesbian women, gay men, and their heterosexual counterparts in Western societies, this paper argues that focusing on different stratification processes within sexual/gender minorities as well as social-institutional structures of a society is indispensable to the study of sexuality stratification. Using the LGBT Workplace Environment Survey 2015, this study explores the association between sexual/gender minority status and income in Japan. The results show that there is a negative association between being a sexual/gender minority and income among both designated females at birth and designated males at birth. The results suggesting the lesbian premium found in Western economies are not observed in Japan. In addition, the findings indicate that the processes through which sexuality stratification operates depend on various categories of sexual/gender minorities such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, transgender, and a local transgender category in Japan “X-gender.”