The Double Responsibilities of Care in East Asia: Emerging New Social Risks of Women Providing both Elderly Care and Childcare

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24310192
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Gender
• Research Institution: Yokohama National University
• Principal Investigator: SOMA, Naoko 横浜国立大学, 国際社会科学研究院, 准教授 (70452050)
• Research Collaborator: YAMASHITA Junko Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Bristol United Kingdom ; CHAN Raymond K.H. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Department of Applied Social Studies ; WANG Kate Yeong-Tsyr NationalTaiwan Normal University, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Social Work ; SONG Dayoung Department of Social Welfare, Incheon, National University, Korea
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ダブルケア / ケアレジーム / ジェンダー / 東アジア地域連携 / 比較

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The objective of this research is to examine the reality of women facing the ‘double responsibilities of care’; the reality of women having to simultaneously provide elderly and childcare, a problem which has emerged in the context of the tendency toward late marriage and childbirth, extreme low birth rate, and extreme aging society in East Asia, along with the limitations of policy related therewith. Against such socio economic background, we have been conducting both quantitative and qualitative research in order to enhance our understanding of new social risk related to the double responsibilities of elderly care and childcare as well as attempting to propose measures to deal with these issues. Based on the results of questionnaire surveys and in-depth interviews in suburban and urban cities, this paper aims to enhance our understanding of women’s experience of double responsibilities of care, and examine the new structure of social risk involved in such issues.

Free Research Field

社会福祉学