Abstract:

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.

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