Full Description
There is a large gap between Japan's ranking on indicators of economic development and on indicators of gender equality. This book helps us to understand why.
The chapters in this volume illuminate important dimensions of gender inequality in Japan - in relation to class, and in comparison to other countries. The book considers the relation of gender inequality to neoliberal policies, and the implications of gender inequality for social reproduction. It demonstrates the ways in which leading Japanese scholars are debating and analysing these issues, in dialogue with feminist economists from Mexico and UK.
The chapters in this book were originally published in The Japanese Political Economy.
Contents
Introduction: Feminism and Gender Research in Japan 1. Why do Japanese women suffer from the low status?: The impact of neo- liberalist reform on gender 2. Impact of Marxist feminism on Japanese women's movement: Focusing on the domestic labor debates 3. Gender equality, paid and unpaid care and domestic work: Disadvantages of state- supported marketization of care and domestic work 4. Development, gender, and asymmetries between Mexico and Japan 5. Intersections of gender and class in the distribution of income 6. The reproductive crisis in neoliberal capitalism: Commenting on D. Elson's recent paper
