2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Sociological Study of Women's employment and Gender Role Attitude in Japan
| Project/Area Number |
23730472
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Sociology
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| Research Institution | Fukushima University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 性別役割意識 / 女性就労 / ライフコース / パネル調査 / 社会階層 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study examines changes in attitudes to gender roles in contemporary Japan by mainly using panel survey data in 2011-13 JLPS (Japanese Life Course Panel Survey). The major conclusions of this study are as follows:
1) Against our initial expectation, gender role attitudes are rather unstable in Japan and major change come from marriage experience for both men and women. 2) Especially among women, there is a tendency that gender role attitudes can change according to their employment conditions after marriage rather than determine their employment choices. 3) For both men and women, there is a strong relation between regarding happy family life as important and accepting traditional gender role in division of labor within families(male breadwinner, and female homemaker).
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