Research on Japanese Young women's Work and Life under the Recession: focusing on Non-regular Workers

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24510380
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Gender
• Research Institution: Osaka Prefecture University
• Principal Investigator: IDA Kumiko 大阪府立大学, 人間社会学部, 教授 (20326242)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): YAMADA Kazuyo 滋賀大学, 経済学部, 教授 (50324562) ; KIMURA Ryoko 大阪大学, 人間科学研究科, 教授 (70224699) ; KUMAYASU Kimie 大阪府立大学, 高等教育推進機構, 准教授 (90161710) ; NAKAHARA Tomoko 神戸大学, 男女共同参画推進室, 助教 (50624649)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 若年女性 / 隠れた貧困 / 世帯内包摂 / 依存 / 生活の質 / ジェンダー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aimed to understand precarious and unstable lives of young women, particularly the ones without college education and to reveal their poverty hidden in family. We conducted a questionnaire study to compare our findings with those with men in similar situations, focusing on their relationships with their parents, husband, etc. The degree and the nature of dependence and was measured mainly by income, mutual exchange of care and affective ties in the relationships.
While the poverty of married women has not been paid enough attention, hidden in family, our analysis has identified the presence of the poverty among married women and the importance of individual income. We were also able to show that low income of women affects their well-being, regardless of partners' employment types, by using the threat of violence as a variable. Exclusion of married women from policy discussion on precarious employment of the youth actually makes poverty of women invisible.

Free Research Field

女性学、ジェンダー論、労働論、イタリア・フェミニズム研究