2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The impact of career on women's work-life-balance during post-child-rearing years
| Project/Area Number |
25380704
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Sociology
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| Research Institution | Meisei University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 再就職 / ポスト育児期 / ワークライフバランス / キャリア形成 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Women’s employment rate one year after the first childbirth is 25 to 30%. Many women re-enter the labour market after their children grow older. Family-related factors, such as co-residence or proximate residence with parents, as well as occupation of women’s first job after graduation are related to the probability of women’s labour force re-entry. Furthermore, women who re-enter the labour market as non-regular sales workers are less likely to experience the shift to regular or self-employment compared to those who re-enter as non-regular clerical workers. These results indicate that women’s work-life-balance during the post-child-rearing years is difficult, because continuous career-building pathways throughout women’s life course is very limited in the Japanese labour market.
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| Free Research Field |
社会学
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