121 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
133 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
133 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Junko Nishimura is Professor at Meisei University, Tokyo.
