The Globalization of Care Work and the Women's Role in the Welfare States: the International Comparison

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24330178
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Kinjo Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: SUGIMOTO Kiyoe 金城学院大学, 付置研究所, 客員研究所員 (20206428)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): OTSUKA Yoko 立命館大学, 政策学部, 教授 (30368021) ; OTOBE Yuko 名古屋工業大学, 工学(系)・研究科(研究院), その他 (20457914) ; YAMAGUCHI Sawako 愛知県立大学, 公私立大学の部局等, その他 (90574343)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): SASUGA Tomoko 京都華頂大学, 現代家政学部, 教授 (40132287) ; ENDO Kiyoe 京都女子大学, 家政学部, 講師 (30326714)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 介護労働 / ジェンダー / 介護保険 / ホ－ムヘルパ－ / 家族介護

Outline of Final Research Achievements

As the gender model to designate women for care work exists, the work has been carried by cheap women labor up to now. Further, in recent years, the labor globalization issue has come to the surface due to the international transference of care workers. Under this environment, in order to conduct the comparison among countries, the study on the care workers actual conditions has been conducted in the US, Denmark, Republic of Korea and People's Republic of China, the each of which has the different care work pattern from others. The study reveals that Japan in particular has the pattern that care work relies on gender role more than other countries. The care work originated from gender patter depends on women highly and the solution to this issue is an urgent issue, the study concludes.

Free Research Field

社会福祉学