Nishimura Junko

Motherhood and Work in Contemporary Japan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The proposed book explores the employment patterns of women born in the 1960s and the 1970s by presenting a comprehensive picture of the employment patterns of Japanese women who raised or are raising their children in the 1990s and the 2000s. Many women born in the 1960s and the 1970s raised their children after the 1990s when the Japanese economy experienced a serious economic downturn. On the other hand, gender equality policy and childcare leave systems were enhanced under pressure to cope with low fertility during this period. This book explores how these economic and policy circumstances, mediated by employment practices in Japanese firms and family systems, affect mothers' employment in Japan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 121
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 142mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781138943667
• ISBN-10: 1138943665
• Artikelnr.: 44468686

Autorenporträt

Junko Nishimura is Professor at Meisei University, Tokyo.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Do Women Work More Now Than Before?: What the M-shaped curve implies
2. Japanese Labour Market and Social Policy Arrangements
3. Marriage, Childbirth, Child Rearing and Women's Employment
4. Women's Employment during the Childbirth and Child-Rearing Years
5. Re-entry and Exit Again?: Women's Career after Childbirth through the
Post-Child-Rearing Years
6. Careers of Japanese Single Mothers
Conclusion