10 Facts About Catherine Hakim

Catherine Hakim was born on 30 May 1948 and is a British sociologist who specialises in women's employment and women's issues.

Catherine Hakim is currently a professorial research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Civil Society, and has formerly worked in British central government and been a senior research fellow at the London School of Economics and the Centre for Policy Studies.

Catherine Hakim has been a visiting professor at the Social Science Research Center Berlin.

Catherine Hakim has published over 100 articles in academic journals and edited collections, as well as over a dozen textbooks and research monographs.

Catherine Hakim is best known for developing preference theory and for her criticism of many feminist assumptions about women's employment.

Catherine Hakim was a member of the editorial board of the European Sociological Review and a former member of the editorial board of International Sociology.

Catherine Hakim states that erotic capital is an asset in many social and economic settings such as media and politics.

Catherine Hakim encouraged young women to use this asset to earn a more respectable position in society.

Catherine Hakim believes that erotic capital has gone unacknowledged for far too long and that the patriarchal society and moral constraints of conservative communities have caused the idea of beauty and attractiveness to stress the importance of personality, not giving enough credit to physique.

Catherine Hakim strongly believes that these sites and the decision to marry are driven by a woman's erotic capital and a man's economic capital.