| 书目名称 | Childbearing and Careers of Japanese Women Born in the 1960s |
| 副标题 | A Life Course That B |
| 编辑 | Yukiko Senda |
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| 概述 | Blends qualitative and quantitative methods to show how individuals’ choices to balance work and life careers unintentionally and aggregately resulted in a low-fertility trend.Targets the 1960s cohort |
| 丛书名称 | SpringerBriefs in Population Studies |
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| 描述 | This book provides the keys to understanding the trajectory that Japanese society has followed toward its lowest-low fertility since the 1980s. The characteristics of the life course of women born in the 1960s, who were the first cohort to enter that trajectory, are explored by using both qualitative and quantitative data analyses. Among the many books explaining the decline in fertility, this book is unique in four ways. First, it describes in detail the reality of factors concerning the fertility decline in Japan. Second, the book uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to introduce the whole picture of how the low-fertility trend began in the 1980s and developed in the 1990s and thereafter. Third, the focus is on a specific birth cohort because their experiences determined the current patterns of family formation such as late marriage and postponed childbirth. Fourth, the book explores the knife-edge balance between work and family conditions, especially with regard to childbearing, in the context of Japanese management and gender norms. After examining the characteristics of demographic and socioeconomic circumstances of postwar Japan in detail, it can be seen that the |
| 出版日期 | Book 2015 |
| 关键词 | Japanese family; Japanese women; Low fertility; Women’s career; Work-life balance |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55066-2 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-4-431-55065-5 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-4-431-55066-2Series ISSN 2211-3215 Series E-ISSN 2211-3223 |
| issn_series | 2211-3215 |
| copyright | The Author(s) 2015 |
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