Women's employment, career pathways/direction of change, and housework across the life course

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K02044
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 08010:Sociology-related
• Research Institution: Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Principal Investigator: Fuwa Makiko 東京都立大学, 人文科学研究科, 教授 (40451877)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: ジェンダー / 就業キャリア / 経路・変動 / 家事

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to examine intra-household gender inequality in contemporary Japan by considering gender relations between spouses, such as the division of housework and economic inequality, as a long-term negotiation process over the life course. First, Study 1) clarifies the states and changes in the division of housework between spouses from a long-term perspective. Study 2) shows that women's career paths and the direction of change are related to the accumulation of intra-household inequality and the division of housework between spouses. Study 3) shows the relationship between women's employment career pathways and gender inequality within households from an international comparative perspective.

Free Research Field

社会学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

研究結果からは、共稼ぎ世帯の増加など女性のライフコース通じた就業が高まる中、世帯内の家事労働や配偶者間の格差をライフコースを通じた長期的交渉過程ととらえて検討していく必要性が高まっていることが示唆された。女性の家事負担や配偶者間の格差は、長期的に「蓄積」している可能性があり、今後の家事研究やパートナー関係の研究にとって重要な視点を提供する。さらに、子育て期の就業中断や就業調整といった男性稼ぎ主型の職場環境が背景となって配偶者間の家事労働や経済格差が拡大する可能性が示されるなど、今後の政策にも示唆を与える知見が得られた。