Women's Employment in Japan
Title | Women's Employment in Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Kaye Broadbent |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2012-11-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1136133461 |
The low status accorded to part-time workers in Japan has resulted in huge inequalities in the workplace. This book examines the problem in-depth using case-study investigations in Japanese workplaces, and reveals the extent of the inequality. It shows how many part-time workers, most of whom are women, are concentrated in low paid, low skilled, poorly unionised service sector jobs. Part-time workers in Japan work hours equivalent to, or greater than, full-time workers, but receive lower financial and welfare benefits than their full-time colleagues. Overall, the book demonstrates that the way part-time work is constructed in Japan reinforces and institutionalises the sexual division of labour.
Gender and Career in Japan
Title | Gender and Career in Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Atsuko Suzuki |
Publisher | Trans Pacific Press |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781876843632 |
This volume probes the nature and ramifications of changing gender norms in Japan from a multidisciplinary perspective incorporating sociology, social psychology and economics.
Career Women in Contemporary Japan
Title | Career Women in Contemporary Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Stefanie Aronsson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2014-10-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317686985 |
Since Japan’s economic recession began in the 1990s, the female workforce has experienced revolutionary changes as greater numbers of women have sought to establish careers. Employment trends indicate that increasingly white-collar professional women are succeeding in breaking through the "glass ceiling", as digital technologies blur and redefine work in spatial, gendered, and ideological terms. This book examines what motivates Japanese women to pursue professional careers in the contemporary neoliberal economy, and how they reconfigure notions of selfhood while doing so. It analyses how professional women contest conventional notions of femininity in contemporary Japan and in turn, negotiate new gender roles and cultural assumptions about women, whilst reorganizing the Japanese workplace and wider socio-economic relationships. Further, the book explores how professional women create new social identities through the mutual conditioning of structure and self, and asks how women come to understand their experiences; how their actions change the gendering of the workforce; and how their lives shape the economic, political, social, and cultural landscapes of this post-industrial nation. Based on extensive fieldwork, Career Women in Contemporary Japan will have broad appeal across a range of disciplines including Japanese culture and society, gender and family studies, women’s studies, anthropology, ethnology and sociology.
Gender Inequalities in the Japanese Workplace and Employment
Title | Gender Inequalities in the Japanese Workplace and Employment PDF eBook |
Author | Kazuo Yamaguchi |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2019-06-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9811376816 |
The in-depth analyses presented in this book have a dual focus: (1) Social mechanisms through which the gender wage gap, gender inequality in the attainment of managerial positions, and gender segregation of occupations are generated in Japan; and (2) Assessments of the effects of firms’ gender-egalitarian personnel policies and work–life balance promotion policies on the gender wage gap and the firms’ productivity. In addition, this work reviews and discusses various economic and sociological theories of gender inequality and gender discrimination and considers their consistencies and inconsistencies with the results of the analysis of Japanese data. Furthermore, the book critically reviews and discusses the historical development of the Japanese employment system by juxtaposing rational and cultural explanations. This book is an English translation by the author of a book he first published in Japanese in 2017. The original Japanese-language edition received two major book awards in Japan. One was The Nikkei Economic Book Culture Award, which is given every year by the Nikkei Newspaper Company and the Japan Economic Research Center to a few best books on economy and society. The other was The Showa University’s Women’s Culture Research Award, which is bestowed annually on a single book of research that promotes gender equality. Kazuo Yamaguchi is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago.
Motherhood and Work in Contemporary Japan
Title | Motherhood and Work in Contemporary Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Nishimura Junko |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 2016-03-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317372735 |
This book explores the employment of Japanese women born in the 1960s and 1970s who experienced childbirth and raised children in the 1990s and the early 2000s. During this period, the Japanese economy experienced a severe recession. It has affected the firm-specific internal labour market and on employment practices, which in turn are thought to have greatly influenced Japanese women’s employment. On the other hand, the fertility rate declined and social policies to support women’s employment began to be implemented after the 1990s. This book explores how these labour market structure and social policies interact to affect Japanese women’s employment. The book first analyses the employment patterns of women born between the 1920s and 1970s and examines how they have varied among different birth cohorts. Then, the employment behaviour of women before and after childbirth through the post-child-rearing period, as well as the working career of single mothers are explored for women born in the 1960s and 1970s. Based on the data analyses, the concluding part of this book discusses how the labour market structure and social policies during the 1990s and early 2000s interactively influenced employment behaviour of Japanese women, and some suggestions are put forward for changing women’s employment during the child-rearing years.
Women and Japanese Management
Title | Women and Japanese Management PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Cheung-Ling Lam |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Sex discrimination in employment |
ISBN | 9780415063357 |
A historical perspective on the often-neglected place of women in Japan's economy, concluding with an illuminating present-day case study.
The Status of Women in Japan
Title | The Status of Women in Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Japan. Rōdōshō. Fujin Shōnenkyoku |
Publisher | |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Women |
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