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Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan

Gill Steel

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  • 286 sidor
  • 2020
Why do Japanese women enjoy a high sense of well-being in a context of high inequality? Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan brings together researchers from across the social sciences to investigate this question. The authors analyze womens values and the lived experiences at home, in the family, at work, in their leisure time, as volunteers, and in politics and policy-making. Their research shows that the state and firms have blurred the public and the private in postwar Japan, constraining individuals lives, and reveals the uneven pace of change in womens representation in politics. Yet, despite these constraints, the increasing diversification in how people live and how they manage their lives demonstrates that some people are crafting a variety of individual solutions to structural problems. Covering a significant breadth of material, the book presents comprehensive findings that use a variety of research methods - public opinion surveys, in-depth interviews, a life history, and participant observation - and, in doing so, look beyond Japans perennially low rankings in gender equality indices to demonstrate the diversity underneath, questioning some of the stereotypical assumptions about women in Japan.
  • Författare: Gill Steel
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780472037704
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 286
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-01-30
  • Förlag: The University of Michigan Press