The TC2 team is thrilled to congratulate our first grand prize-winning team of interdisciplinary scholars: Zi Yang and Myeong Cho with "A Mixed Method Study on Menopausal Experience among the East Asian Migrants in the United States."
Our judges delberated long and hard to determine which of the two research presetnations should take home the $10,000 prize, and the TC2 team was delighted to be able to award the runners up with a cash prize as well!
Grand Prize-Winning Presentation:
A Mixed Method Study on Menopausal Experience among the East Asian Migrants in the United States
- Zixuan Yang, MA1,2, Myeong-ga Cho, MSN, RN 1,3 1University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2Department of Anthropology, 3School of Nursing
This project draws on interdisciplinary knowledge of nursing and anthropology to examine menopausal experience among East Asian migrants in the United States. Women live in menopausal status more than one third of their lifetime yet there is a lack of attention on women’s lived experience of menopause concentrating on East Asian migrants.
Despite different disciplinary focuses, both anthropology and nursing aim to promote well-being and health equity; both agree that menopause is experienced differently depending on health conditions, lifestyles, migration statuses, cultural background, and socioeconomic resources. Therefore, combining theoretical and methodological strengths from both disciplines, this project takes a critical stand towards the very notion of menopause, broadening its definition by incorporating women’s lived experience and cultural perceptions of aging and womanhood at the end of menstruation. Placing women’s psychological wellbeing under the background of the emerging discourses of “successful aging" and heightened biomedicalization in the United States, this project seeks to investigate how East Asian migrants with different socioeconomic statuses, exhibit diverse psychological responses throughout.
Team Faculty Mentors: Catherine Bender, Nicole Constable