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Beyond the gender gap in Japan /

(Number (ISBN

0472124609

(Number (ISBN

9780472124602

Erroneous ISBN

0472131141

Erroneous ISBN

9780472131143

Title Proper

Beyond the gender gap in Japan /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Gill Steel.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Ann Arbor :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Michigan Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2019]

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2019

Date

1901

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (vi, 275 pages)

Series Title

Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ;

Volume Designation

number 85

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Introduction : changing women's and men's lives in Japan / Gill Steel -- 1. Women's work at home and in the workplace / Gill Steel -- 2. Busy, happy, and withdrawn : Japanese women's constrained leisure choices / Mito Akiyoshi -- 3. Why women won't wed / Kumiko Nemoto -- 4. Working women's husbands as helpers or partners / Yuko Ogasawara -- 5. The politics of care and community : women and civil society in Japan / Linda Hasunuma -- 6. The "silent majority" speaks out : conservative women defending convention / Kimiko Osawa -- 7. Women and the Liberal Democratic Party in transition / Yuki Tsuji -- 8. Tokyo's first female governor breaks the steel ceiling / Susan Pavloska -- 9. "Life" as a political agenda / Hiroko Takeda -- 10. One size fits all? The implications of differences in regional fertility for public policy / Mayumi Nakamura -- 11. Japan's womenomics diplomacy / Liv Coleman -- 12. Japan's growing base of women in elected office / Sherry Martin -- 13. Staffing the state with women / Gregory W. Noble -- 14. Changing legislature, changing politics : quotas, electoral systems, and political representation / Yoshiaki Kobayashi and Yuta Kamahara.

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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 women's 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 women's 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 Japan's perennially low rankings in gender equality indices to demonstrate the diversity underneath, questioning some of the stereotypical assumptions about women in Japan.

Title

Beyond the gender gap in Japan.

International Standard Book Number

9780472131143

Feminism-- Japan.

Sex discrimination-- Japan.

Women-- Japan-- Social conditions.

Women-- Political activity-- Japan.

Feminism.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Essays.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- General.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- National.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Reference.

Sex discrimination.

Women-- Political activity.

Women-- Social conditions.

Japan.

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POL-- 018000

POL-- 030000

POL-- 032000

POL-- 040000

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Edition

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Steel, Gill,1965-

Date of Transaction

20200822114340.0

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[Book]

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