1st Edition
Career Women in Contemporary Japan Pursuing Identities, Fashioning Lives
By Anne Stefanie Aronsson
Copyright 2015
256 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
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Routledge
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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.... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Women and Work in Modern Japan 3. Identity, Family, and Career 4. Pioneering Female Career tracks in Japan – Women in Their Sixties and Above 5. The Performative Aspect of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies – Women in Their Fifties 6. Through the Labyrinth of Their Working Lives – Women in Their Forties 7. Reevaluating the Self – Women in Their Thirties 8. Transitioning to a Career – Women in Their Twenties 9. Conclusion
Biography
Anne Stefanie Aronsson holds a PhD in Anthropology from Yale University, USA
