Reseach in relation to the work of the married women and their personal networks.

2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 14310085
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: 社会学(含社会福祉関係)
• Research Institution: Kyusyu Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: YASUKOCHI Keiko Kyusyu Institute of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Associate Professor, 情報工学部, 助教授 (10195696)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MORIOKA Kiyoshi Tokyo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Humanities, Professor, 人文学部, 教授 (50125358) ; NAKAO Keiko Tokyo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Humanities, Associate Professor, 人文学部, 助教授 (10274995) ; INADUKI Tadashi The University of Kitakyushu, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Professor, 外国語学部, 教授 (00232512) ; ANDO Kiwamu Nagoya City University, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor, 大学院・人文科学研究科, 助教授 (80269133) ; ASAKAWA Tatsuto The University of the Air, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Associate Professor, 教養学部, 助教授 (40270665)
• Project Period (FY): 2002 – 2004
• Keywords: women's work / married women's work / working patterns of women / personal networks / support networks / degree of urbanism / comparison among cities / low birthrate

Research Abstract

The aim of this research is to clarify how degrees of urbanism affect the married women's work, how the personal networks can help married women decide how to work or if they can continue working or not, how much effect other circumstances like housework responsibility or possibility of using nursery services have on their decision of keeping their jobs.
1.With these aims of research, we conducted a survey at the academic year 2003(September 2003) in Fukuoka City (except Nishi-Ku) and Tokushima City, mailing a questionnaire to 2,200 samples (Age 30-49,women) in each place. Whether a woman is married or not, a married woman has a job or not, the married women's individual network system is like and how the household duties are shared between the couple are asked in the questionnaire. We have received 754 valid answers in Fukuoka City and 874 in Tokushima City.
2.In the academic year 2004,we analyzed the data. The major findings from the analysis, whose details are described in ‘A Report on Research Results', are ;
(1)In Tokushima City, more married women who have children work. That is, the lower the degree of urbanism is, the bigger the number of mothers with having jobs is. The ratio of mothers having jobs is 68.0% for Fukuoka and 74.3% for Tokushima, and the difference was significant.
(2)In this finding, we are convinced that the rule of Douglas-Arisawa works. (High income of spouses prevents housewives from having jobs)
(3)The factors enabling the married women in Tokushima City to work are there is less social movement and there are many 3-generation-families.
(4)Other factors are that kin networks which can provide nursery services are more developed there.
(These((3)(4)) mean that living with couples' parent(s) and having more kin networks promote housewives to having jobs.)
(5)More women who have graduated from national universities have job than those who have graduated from private universities.