2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Maternal Gatekeeping and Mothers' Career Development among Dual-earner families

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Project/Area Number	16K00742
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Home economics/Human life
Research Institution	Tokyo Woman's Christian University (2018) Ochanomizu University (2016-2017)
Principal Investigator	NAKAGAWA Mari 東京女子大学, 現代教養学部, 准教授 (00649634)
Project Period (FY)	2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Keywords	マターナル・ゲートキーピング / 共働き家族 / 父親の子育て・家事参加 / 母親のキャリア形成 / 母親の就業 / 共分散構造分析
Outline of Final Research Achievements	This study examines whether dual-earner Japanese mothers with children facilitate fathers’ participation in housework, restrict their engagement, and manage housework performance, whether mothers’ such behaviors affect fathers’ participation in housework, and whether their own career development affect mothers’ such behaviors. I invoked the concept of maternal gatekeeping. This study yielded three main results through web questionnaire and focus group interviews. First, mothers facilitate husbands’ participation in housework and childcare via maternal gatekeeping, and mothers’ facilitation increases fathers’ participation in housework and childcare. Second, the more frequently mothers restrict fathers’ participation in housework and childcare, the less fathers participate in housework and childcare. Third, as a result, it is speculated that the more frequently mothers share housework and childcare, the more mothers have own career development.
Free Research Field	家族社会学・家族関係学・家政学
Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements	学術的意義は、母親のゲートキーピング仮説について日本版測定尺度を開発し、母親から父親への子育て・家事参加へのゲートキーピング行動として抱え込み・促進・統制の３側面を抽出したことと、父親の家事・子育ておよび母親自身のキャリアとの関連を明らかにした新規性である。家族社会学・家族関係学における共働き家族研究において発展をもたらした。社会的意義は、女性活躍推進や男性のワーク・ライフ・バランスの実現を目指す日本において、共働き家族の男女の役割分担に知見を与える点で意義がある。性別役割分業が根強い日本の家族において、母親の仕事と家庭の二重負担の軽減および父親の家事・子育て参加の増加に具体的な示唆を与える。