The Contemporary Historical Study on Highly Educated Women's Career Development and Housework/Care work

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K13669
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 08010:Sociology-related
• Research Institution: Rikkyo University
• Principal Investigator: Atobe Chisato 立教大学, コミュニティ福祉学部, 助教 (70780823)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 女性のキャリア形成 / ケア労働 / 女性労働史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of this study is to clarify the history of highly educated women who continued to work after their marriage, focused on the reproductive sphere and the informal sector. Through the document analysis, we considered how female teachers who entered the workforce in the 1960s in the Tokyo metropolitan area and came from a rural city with no relatives nearby continued to work after childbirth.
The focus of this analysis is to investigate the hierarchy of wage labor and reproductive labor in a society with large gender disparities. This research confirms that female teachers, who are marginalized in the workplace because of their childcare, found it difficult to take care of housework and childcare by themselves, so they had continued their careers by housewives in their neighborhoods to substitute their housework and childcare for low wages or free.

Free Research Field

社会学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

戦後、主婦化が進行する日本において、結婚・出産後も継続的に就労してきた女性教員を事例に、キャリア継続と再生産労働の関係性を検討した点にある。教育とジェンダー研究で蓄積されてきた女性教師の学校内での周辺化と、国際社会学において、再生産領域の国際性別分業という視点から着目されてきた家事・ケア労働者の問題を接合させ、日本社会におけるジェンダー構造を分析しようと試みた。今後、社会政策が内包するジェンダー規範も視野に入れた分析を進めることによって、日本社会のジェンダー秩序を捉える研究へと発展させていく予定である。女性の労働力化という日本社会が抱える課題にも貢献できる。