2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Comparative Gender Analysis of New Economy ; service, information and widening social gaps in aging societies
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14310073
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
社会学(含社会福祉関係)
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
OSAWA Mari The University of Tokyo, Institute of Social Science, Professor, 社会科学研究所, 教授 (50143524)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
OGASAWARA Yuko Nihon University, College of Economics, Associate Professor, 経済学部, 助教授 (40286191)
ROBERTS Glenda Waseda University, Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Professor, アジア太平洋研究センター, 教授 (40308242)
TANAKA Kazuko ICU, College of Liberal Arts, Professor, 教養学部, 教授 (60217015)
AIBA Keiko Meiji Gakuin University, Department of International Studies, Associate Professor, 国際学部, 助教授 (50298056)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2003
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| Keywords | gender / New Economy / globalization / de-regulation / re-regulation / welfare states / international interchange of investigators / international exchange of information |
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| Research Abstract |
This research is a comparative gender analysis of the United Kingdom, Germany, United State and Japan regarding the changes in industrial and work organization which would have been produced as "New Economy" in an era of economic globalization. It is pointed out that although many have argued about "less hierarchical" and "more flexible" way of organization in industry and work, in fact various social gaps based on gender, class, ethnicity and knowledge have been expanding. Not only the elements of deregulation and privatization but also the elements of re-regulation and strengthening safety net should not be overlooked, in relation to a vector of the current reformation of regulation and welfare states, and these phenomena intersect gender relations. Above four countries have strong economic power in the world and make implicationally an excellent contrast each other. These four countries have different gender regimes in particular. The United States is most advanced in promoting wome
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n's working. Japan's gender regime seems that woman's domestic roles are the highest priority. This research has investigated and made clear whether gender regimes cross cutting welfare, industry and working and family have been converging or whether it has been diverging under a strong path dependency.
Namely the public symposium "New Economy in a Global Era : Comparative Gender Analysis of US, Europe and Japan" was held at University of Tokyo on September 3, 2002 to exchange opinions regarding the concepts of this research with scholars as well as citizens outside of the research group. The results of the symposium were published in the special issue "Transnational Feminism" in "Gendai Sisou" Vol.31 No.1 (January 2003). Workshops with overseas co-investigators were held in the University of Bremen at the end of September, 2003 and in Japan at the beginning of March,2004. In order to widely disseminate the results of this research to the society, the public symposium "New Economy in a Global Era : Comparative Gender Analysis of US, Europe and Japan II" (the 18th UT-ISS Symposium) at the University of Tokyo on March 4, 2004 Less
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Research Products
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