Full Description
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of women working in the Japanese post-war economy. It shows how the role of women in the economy developed in the years of rapid economic growth when women workers were increasingly in demand to alleviate labour shortages; considers the role of women in different sectors of the economy; and discusses the important tensions between the traditional cultural role of women as wife, mother and housewife and their new role as 'modern' working women.
Contents
Part 1Economic Role of Women - The Occupation Years (1945-52) 2. Contributing to the Economic Miracle - Women & High Speed Growth (1955-73) 3. Restructuring Female Labour - Women & Lower Speed Growth (1975-1990) Part 2: The 'Nimble' Female Hands of Japanese Industry 4. Women in the Manufacturing Industries - Textiles and Electronics 5. Women in the Service Industries - Banking and Finance 6. Women and the Wholesale & Retail Sector Part 3: Japanese Women and Socio-Economic Change 7. Diversification - Younger & Older Women in the Labour Market 8. Domesticity - Conflict of Tradition and Reality for Japanese Women 9. 'Feminine Future' - The Role for Women in Japan's Post-Bubble Economy?
