%0 Journal Article %D Working Paper %T Changes in Postindustrial Family Formation: An Empirical Examination of Competing Theories %A Mary C. Brinton %A Sinn Won Han %G eng %0 Journal Article %D Working Paper %T Paternity Leave Policy and Low Fertility in Japan: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach %A Mary C. Brinton %A Yun Zhou %G eng %0 Journal Article %D Working Paper %T Searching for a Marriage Mate in Postindustrial Japan: 'Just Right' or 'Good Enough?' %A Mary C. Brinton %A Ekaterina Hertog %A Eunmi Mun %G eng %0 Book Section %B Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Japan %D Forthcoming %T Family and Demographic Issues %A Mary C. Brinton %E Hiroko Takeda %B Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Japan %G eng %0 Journal Article %J American Journal of Sociology %D 2019 %T Babies, Work, or Both? Highly Educated Women’s Employment and Fertility in East Asia %A Mary C. Brinton %A Eunsil Oh %B American Journal of Sociology %V 125 %P 105-140 %G eng %N 1 %0 Journal Article %J East Asia Forum Quarterly %D 2019 %T Burden-Sharing a Remedy to Falling Birth Rates %A Mary C. Brinton %B East Asia Forum Quarterly %V 11 %P 3-5 %G eng %N 1 %0 Journal Article %J Population Studies %D 2019 %T Gender Egalitarianism, Perceived Economic Insecurity, and Fertility Intentions in Spain: A Qualitative Analysis %A Xiana Bueno %A Mary C. Brinton %B Population Studies %V 73 %P 247-260 %G eng %N 2 %0 Web Page %D 2018 %T Understanding the Gap between Fertility Ideals and Intention in Four Postindustrial Societies %A Mary C. Brinton %A Xiana Bueno %A Livia Oláh %A Merete Hellum %B Demotrends %G eng %U https://demotrends.org/2018/07/16/understanding-the-gap-between-fertility-ideals-and-intentions-in-four-postindustrial-societies/ %N July 16, 2018 %0 Journal Article %J Population and Development Review %D 2018 %T Postindustrial Fertility Ideals, Intentions, and Gender Inequality: A Comparative Qualitative Analysis %A Mary C. Brinton %A Xiana Bueno %A Livia Olah %A Merete Hellum %B Population and Development Review %V 44 %P 281-309 %G eng %U http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/padr.12128/full %N 2 %0 Journal Article %J Demographic Research %D 2017 %T The Gender Division of Labor and Second Births: Labor Market Institutions and Fertility in Japan %A Nobuko Nagase %A Mary C. Brinton %B Demographic Research %V 36 %P 339-370 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J American Journal of Sociology, %D 2017 %T One Egalitarianism or Several? Two Decades of Gender-Role Attitude Change in Europe %A Carly Knight %A Mary C. Brinton %B American Journal of Sociology, %V 122 %P 1485-1532 %8 Jan 2017 %G eng %N 5 %0 Book Section %B Happiness in Japan %D 2017 %T Happiness at Work? Japanese Housewives’ and Employed Wives’ Marital Happiness %A Mary C. Brinton %E Barbara Holthus %E Wolfram Manzenreiter %B Happiness in Japan %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Research in Social Stratification and Mobility %D 2016 %T Revisiting the Welfare State Paradox: A Firm-Level Analysis from Japan %A Mary C. Brinton %A Eunmi Mun %B Research in Social Stratification and Mobility %V 47 %P 33-43 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Population and Development Review %D 2016 %T Gender-Role Ideology, Labor Market Institutions, and Postindustrial Fertility %A Mary C. Brinton %A Dong Ju Lee %B Population and Development Review %V 42 %P 405-433 %G eng %N 3 %0 Journal Article %J American Behavioral Scientist %D 2016 %T Intentions into Actions: Norms as Mechanisms Linking Macro- and Micro-Levels %A Mary C. Brinton %B American Behavioral Scientist %V 60 %P 1146-1167 %G eng %N 10 %0 Journal Article %J Socio-Economic Review %D 2016 %T Between State and Family: Managers' Implementation and Evaluation of Parental Leave Policies in Japan %A Mary C. Brinton %A Eunmi Mun %X

Work–family policies have been widely adopted in post-industrial societies. This paper brings the organizational level into the analysis of work–family policy effects on female employees. We theorize that managers' evaluation of female employees' use of parental leave is shaped not only by policy content, but also by labour market structure and the dominant cultural model of household gender relations. Using Japan as a case study, we analyse in-depth interviews with human resource managers in 25 large firms and show that managers' implementation of parental leave and their evaluation of leave-takers occur within the context of norms about ideal employee behaviour in firm-internal labour markets and about the gendered division of care work. These conflicting norms produce managerial expectations that can only be met by a small number of women. The article contributes to theory and research on work–family policies and female employment outcomes in two ways: by demonstrating the critical role of managers, and by showing how labour market structure and associated work norms together with the dominant cultural understanding of household gender relations act as filters through which managers construct their evaluations of employees who take leave.

%B Socio-Economic Review %V 14 %P 257-281 %G eng %N 2 %0 Journal Article %J Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry (Japan) %D 2015 %T Japanese Low Fertility and the Low Labor Force Participation of Married Women: The Role of Rigid Labor Markets and Workplace Norms. %A Mary C. Brinton %B Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry (Japan) %V October %G eng %N 56 %0 Journal Article %J Work and Occupations %D 2015 %T Workplace Matters: The Use of Parental Leave Policy in Japan %A Eunmi Mun %A Mary C. Brinton %B Work and Occupations %V 42 %P 335-369 %G eng %U http://wox.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/03/06/0730888415574781.full.pdf+html %N 3 %0 Web Page %D 2012 %T Review of "Lost in Transition" %A O'Day, Robin %B Pacific Affairs: An International Review of Asia and the Pacific %G eng %U http://www.pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/ %0 Web Page %D 2012 %T Review of "Lost in Transition" %A Dierkes, Julian %B Economic Sociology: The European Electronic Newsletter %V 13 %P 50-54 %G eng %U http://econsoc.mpifg.de/ %N 2 %0 Book %D 2011 %T Lost in Transition: Youth, Work, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan %A Mary Brinton %I Cambridge University Press %C Cambridge %G eng %U http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Transition-Youth-Instability-Postindustrial/dp/0521126002/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315834365&sr=8-1 %0 Journal Article %J Sociology of Education %D 2010 %T Cultural Capital in East Asian Educational Systems: The Case of Japan %A Mary C. Brinton %A Yoko Yamamoto %B Sociology of Education %V 83 %P 67-83 %G eng %N 1 %0 Journal Article %J Research in Social Stratification and Mobility %D 2010 %T School-Work Systems in Postindustrial Societies: Evidence from Japan %A Mary C. Brinton %A Zun Tang %B Research in Social Stratification and Mobility %V 28 %P 215–232 %G eng %N 2 %0 Journal Article %J American Journal of Sociology %D 2009 %T Microclass Mobility: Social Reproduction in Four Countries %A Mary C. Brinton %A Jan O. Jonsson %A David B. Grusky %A Matthew Di Carlo %A Reinhard Pollak %B American Journal of Sociology %V 114 %P 977-1036 %G eng %N 4 %0 Book Section %B Social Class in Japan %D 2009 %T Social Class and Economic Life Chances in Postindustrial Japan: The 'Lost Generation' %A Mary C. Brinton %E David Slater %E Hiroshi Ishida %B Social Class in Japan %I Routledge %G eng %0 Book %D 2008 %T Lost in Transition: Youth, Education, and Work in Postindustrial Japan %A Mary Brinton %X Brinton’s recent work focuses on the transformation of labor markets in postindustrial societies and the implications for young workers, especially those with less education. Her forthcoming book, Lost in Transition: Youth, Education, and Work in Postindustrial Japan is being published first in Japanese (in fall 2008; NTT Press) in order to reach a broad audience in Japan interested in the difficulties faced by young Japanese men trying to "make it" in an economic environment vastly different from what their fathers faced. The rapid increase in contingent employment and employers’ diminished commitment to "lifetime employment" have produced higher rates of part-time employment and unemployment among Japanese young men than have been seen for many decades. Using original survey data, interviews with urban high school teachers, original data sets on the high school-work transition, and in-depth interviews with a sample of male high school graduates who finished school in the depth of the Japanese recession, Brinton argues for a structural interpretation of the social malaise afflicting 21st-century Japan. She is currently revising the manuscript for an American audience. %I NTT Press %G eng %U http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%A4%B1%E3%82%8F%E3%82%8C%E3%81%9F%E5%A0%B4%E3%82%92%E6%8E%A2%E3%81%97%E3%81%A6%E2%94%80%E2%94%80%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%8D%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%81%AE%E7%A4%BE%E4%BC%9A%E5%AD %0 Book %D 2007 %T The Declining Significance of Gender? %A Mary Brinton %A Francine D. Blau %A David B. Grusky %X The Declining Significance of Gender? draws together original essays by leading American sociologists and labor economists who examine contemporary patterns of gender inequality in American labor markets and households to make theoretically informed predictions about whether we are headed for a gender-egalitarian future or not. In collaboration with David Grusky (Stanford University) and Francine Blau (Cornell University), Brinton traces the dominant theoretical paradigms governing our understanding of gender inequality in the introductory chapter of the book, and examines the engines of change or stasis inherent in each theoretical approach. %I Russell Sage Foundation %G eng %U http://www.amazon.com/Declining-Significance-Gender-Francine-Blau/dp/0871543702/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259626788&sr=1-1 %0 Book Section %B The Political Economy of Low Fertility: Japan in Comparative Perspective %D 2007 %T Gendered Offices: A Comparative-Historical Examination of Clerical Work in Japan and the U.S. %A Mary Brinton %E Frances McCall Rosenbluth %B The Political Economy of Low Fertility: Japan in Comparative Perspective %I Stanford University Press %C Stanford %P 87-111 %G eng %U http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/node/3425 %0 Book Section %B The Declining Significance of Gender? %D 2006 %T The Declining Significance of Gender? : Chapter 1 %A Mary Brinton %A Francine D. Blau %A David B. Grusky %B The Declining Significance of Gender? %I Russell Sage Foundation %C New York %P 3-34 %G eng %U http://www.amazon.com/Declining-Significance-Gender-Francine-Blau/dp/0871540924 %0 Book Section %B The Handbook of Economic Sociology %D 2005 %T Education and the Economy %A Mary Brinton %A Neil Smelser %A Richard Swedberg %B The Handbook of Economic Sociology %I Russell Sage Foundation %C New York %P 575-602 %G eng %U http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Economic-Sociology-Second/dp/0691121265 %0 Book Section %B The New Economic Sociology of Capitalism %D 2005 %T Trouble in Paradise: The Youth Labor Market and School-Work Institutions in Japan’s Economy %A Mary Brinton %A Richard Swedberg %A Victor Nee %B The New Economic Sociology of Capitalism %I Princeton University Press %C Princeton %P 419-444 %G eng %U http://www.amazon.com/Economic-Sociology-Capitalism-Victor-Nee/dp/0691119589 %0 Book %D 2001 %T Women’s Working Lives in East Asia %A Mary Brinton %X Women’s Working Lives in East Asia is an edited volume that presents research from a number of Brinton’s East Asian graduate students and collaborators on the comparison of gender inequality patterns across three East Asian economies: Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Brinton and her collaborators demonstrate that Japan and Korea cluster together in exhibiting similarly strong patterns of gender inequality in the labor market, with Taiwan exhibiting more rapid change towards gender-egalitarian patterns of work. The book includes chapters ranging from the purely qualitative to the highly quantitative, and chapters focusing exclusively on one country case as well as those that compare two or all three of the country cases with each other. %I Stanford University Press %G eng %U http://www.amazon.com/Womens-Working-Studies-Social-Inequality/dp/0804741492 %0 Book Section %B Women’s Working Lives in East Asia %D 2001 %T Women’s Labor in East Asian Economies %A Mary Brinton %B Women’s Working Lives in East Asia %I Stanford University Press %C Stanford %P 1-37 %G eng %U http://www.amazon.com/Womens-Working-Studies-Social-Inequality/dp/0804741492 %0 Journal Article %J Policy Sciences %D 2000 %T Social Capital in the Japanese Youth Labor Market: Labor Market Policy, Schools, and Norms %A Mary Brinton %B Policy Sciences %V 33 %G eng %N 4 %0 Book %D 1998 %T The New Institutionalism in Sociology %A Mary Brinton %A Victor Nee %X The New Institutionalism in Sociology (Russell Sage Foundation,1998; paperback edition published by Stanford University Press, 2001) is a volume co-edited with Victor Nee that examines rational choice-derived perspectives and empirical research on institutional change. The book includes chapters by sociologists and economists who examine the social embeddedness of key institutions in capitalist economies and who consider the role of norms and cultural beliefs in economic development and institutional formation and change. %I Russell Sage Foundation %G eng %U http://www.amazon.com/New-Institutionalism-Sociology-Mary-Brinton/dp/0804742766/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259626808&sr=1-1 %0 Book Section %B The New Institutionalism in Sociology %D 1998 %T Institutional Embeddedness in Japanese Labor Markets %A Mary Brinton %A Takehiko Kariya %A Mary Brinton %A Victor Nee %B The New Institutionalism in Sociology %I Russell Sage Foundation %C New York %P 181-207 %G eng %U http://www.amazon.com/New-Institutionalism-Sociology-Mary-Brinton/dp/0804742766 %0 Journal Article %J American Journal of Sociology %D 1997 %T Productive Activities and Support Systems of Single Mothers %A Mary Brinton %A Lingxin Hao %B American Journal of Sociology %V 102 %P 1305-1344 %G eng %N 5 %0 Journal Article %J Sociology of Education %D 1996 %T Elite Education and Social Capital: The Case of the Korean Elite %A Mary Brinton %A Sunhwa Lee %B Sociology of Education %V 69 %P 177-192 %G eng %U http://soe.sagepub.com/ %N 2 %0 Journal Article %J American Journal of Sociology %D 1995 %T Married Women's Employment in Rapidly Industrializing Societies: Examples from East Asia %A Mary Brinton %A Yean-Ju Lee %A William Parish %B American Journal of Sociology %V 100 %P 1099-1130 %G eng %N 5 %0 Book %D 1993 %T Women and the Economic Miracle: Gender and Work in Postwar Japan %A Mary Brinton %X Women and the Economic Miracle: Gender and Work in Postwar Japan examines why Japanese society exhibits the strongest degree of gender inequality across industrial and postindustrial societies. Drawing on original quantitative and qualitative data as well as a variety of secondary data sources, she shows how the institutional context of Japanese labor markets, the educational system, and the family set constraints and opportunities for individual action that culminate in strongly gendered work patterns and a high degree of gender inequality in the workplace. %I University of California Press %G eng %U http://www.amazon.com/Women-Economic-Miracle-California-Political/dp/0520089200 %0 Journal Article %J Sociological Forum %D 1993 %T Age and Sex in the Occupational Structure: A United States-Japan Comparison %A Mary Brinton %A Hang-Yue Ngo %B Sociological Forum %P 93-111 %G eng %U http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291573-7861 %N 8 %0 Journal Article %J American Sociological Review %D 1989 %T Gender Stratification in Contemporary Urban Japan %A Mary Brinton %B American Sociological Review %P 542-557 %G eng %U http://www.asanet.org/journals/asr/ %N 54 %0 Journal Article %J American Journal of Sociology %D 1988 %T The Social-Institutional Bases of Gender Stratification: Japan as an Illustrative Case %A Mary Brinton %B American Journal of Sociology %P 300-334 %G eng %N 94