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- Title
Factors Facilitating Japanese Married Women Entering the Labour Force.
- Authors
Kumaga, Fumie; Kato, Akihiko
- Abstract
This article evaluates factors that facilitate Japanese married women's entrance into the labour force. Logistic multiple regression analyses of a national representative sample revealed six significant factors: Japanese married women eagerly seek employment outside the home who co-reside with their mother-in-law; whose youngest child is 0–10 years old; whose husband's annual income is low; whose husband is non-salaried; who reside in small communities; or who possess liberal attitudes towards traditional marital roles. Working outside the home is an effective strategy adopted by married women in traditional intergenerational families to reduce conflict with in-laws, particularly the mother-in-law. In future studies, the authors hope to analyse the event history of longitudinal data to pinpoint causes of labour force participation of Japanese married women across communities.
- Subjects
MARRIED women; JAPANESE people; LABOR supply; WORKING mothers; MULTIPLE regression analysis; ATTITUDE (Psychology); FAMILY conflict; INTERGENERATIONAL relations; PARENTS-in-law
- Publication
Current Sociology, 2007, Vol 55, Issue 4, p561
- ISSN
0011-3921
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0011392107077639