A Quantitative Picture of Contemporary Japanese Families
Subtitle: Tradition and Modernity in the 21st Century
By: edited by TANAKA Sigeto
Series: Tohoku University Global COE Program Gender Equality and Multicultural Conviviality in the Age of Globalization
Publisher: Tohoku University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Sendai
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9784861632266
Subjects: Families; Statistics; Familie; Kazoku
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Lineal Relationships after Modernization. Chapter 1. Relationship between parents and children over the age of majority under Japanese family law / KUBONO Emiko; title: Chapter 2. Continuity and change in the Japanese family: Testing the family nuclearization hypothesis / KATO Akihiko; title: Chapter 3. Is the generational contract between care and inheritance still alive in Japan?: The coexistence of gendered bilateral and patrilineal intergenerational relationships / YAMATO Reiko; title: Chapter 4. Parent-child relationships and kinship in postwar Japan: Examining bilateral hypotheses / SHI Liping; title: Part II. Structure of Unpaid Work. Chapter 5. Gender segregation of housework / TSUTSUI Junya; title: Chapter 6. Influence of wife's full-time employment and gender role attitudes on the division of housework / INUI Junko; title: Chapter 7. Women's attitudes on caring for elderly parents: Life-stage differences between an "ideal incident" and a "daily incident" in terms of care / KADO Yoku; title: Part III. Consequences of the Feminization of Employment. Chapter 8. Women, work, and family issues / SUZUKI Fumiko and TANAKA Sigeto; title: Chapter 9. Determinants of employment of women with infants / NISHIMURA Junko; title: Chapter 10. What problems obstruct family roles?: Gender differences in the cause of work-family conflicts / UCHIDA Tetsuro; title: Chapter 11. Effect of wives' contributions to family income on husbands' gender role attitudes / SHIMA Naoko; title: Part IV. Family and Inequality. Chapter 12. Effects of extended family members on children's educational attainment: A focus on the diverse effects of grandparents, uncles, and aunts / ARAMAKI Sohei; title: Chapter 13. Gender gap in equivalent household income after divorce / TANAKA Sigeto; title: Chapter 14. Non-first marriage continuing families and their experiences / INABA Akihide.