Gendered trajectories: women, work, and social change in Japan and Taiwan
This work explores why industrial societies vary in the pace at which they reduce gender inequality and compares changes in women's employment opportunities in Japan and Taiwan over the last half-century.
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| Summary: | This work explores why industrial societies vary in the pace at which they reduce gender inequality and compares changes in women's employment opportunities in Japan and Taiwan over the last half-century. |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Autor: Yu, Wei-Hsin
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CONTENTS
Figures and Tables ix
Acknowledgments xiii
CHAPTER ONE
Gender Inequality and Social Change in Japan and Taiwan 1
CHAPTER TWO
The Development of Women s Labor Market Experiences 21
CHAPTER THREE
Comparing Labor Market Structures and Workplace Dynamics 45
CHAPTER FOUR
Patterns of Labor Force Exits Among Women 70
CHAPTER FIVE
Challenges from the Home Front 93
CHAPTER SIX
Returning to the Labor Force 120
CHAPTER SEVEN
Higher Education and Gender Inequality 147
CHAPTER EIGHT
Conclusion 178
Contents
Appendix A: Description of the Data Sources 201
Appendix B: Supplementary Tables 205
Notes 219
References 233
Index 247
FIGURES AND TABLES
Figures
1.1 Annual economic growth rates in Japan and Taiwan, 1956
to 2005 4
1.2 Women s labor force participation and number of children
by age group 7
1.3 Age distributions of brides and mothers giving live birth in
2004/2005 8
1.4 Attitudes regarding gender roles in Japan and Taiwan 10
2.1 Trends in female labor force participation during the life
course for Japan and Taiwan 24
2.2 Distributions of women s careers in Japan and
Taiwan 27
2.3 Proportion of ever-married women returning to the labor
force by various ages 29
2.4 Percentage of workers with experience of within-
organization job shifting by current occupation 32
2.5 Job mobility and percent changes in annual earnings 37
2.6 Predicted annual earnings by gender and employment
status for Japan and Taiwan 40
3.1 Distribution of the labor force by industry, 1951 to 2000,
for Japan and Taiwan 47
3.2 Unemployment and nonfarm labor force growth rates,
1950 to 2000 55
3.3 Annual increases in the male population of working age,
1950 to 2000 56
3.4 Comparisons of the labor force by firm size in Japan
and Taiwan 65
x Figures and Tables
4.1 Explanatory framework 71
4.2 Occupational effects on ever-married women s labor force
exits throughout their employment career, after marriage,
and at the birth of their first child 77
4.3 Effects of firm size on ever-married women s labor force
exits throughout their employment career, after marriage,
and around the birth of their first child 81
4.4 Relative odds of labor force exit of public- to private-sector
employees 84
4.5 Effects of individual characteristics on the likelihood of
exiting the labor force after marriage and around the first
childbirth 87
4.6 Predicted probabilities for labor force exit during the
marriage year 90
5.1 Percentage of Japanese men at home by eight o clock on
weekdays 96
5.2 Percent approval of working mothers with young children
among Taiwanese women, by education 112
5.3 Trends of male-wage-to-household-spending ratio and
family size, 1965 to 2000 115
6.1 Labor force participation rates of seven birth cohorts at
various ages for Japanese and Taiwanese women 121
6.2 Estimated probability of labor force reentry, hypothetical
cases 130
6.3 Comparison of occupations before and after a work
interruption 134
6.4 Comparison of firm size between the female labor force
and women reentrants 135
6.5 Comparison of employment status between the female
labor force and women reentrants 136
6.6 Effects of postmarital entry on women s current work sta-
tus in Japan 144
7.1 School systems in Japan and Taiwan 150
7.2 Estimated advancement rates to various educational
institutions among Taiwanese middle school graduates,
1950 to 1998 156
7.3 Trends in the percentage of female students among students
in tertiary institutions 157
7.4 Trends in the percentage of female students admitted to the
University of Tokyo and National Taiwan University 160
7.5 Percentage of students in applied science programs by
educational level in Taiwan 166
Figures and Tables
7.6 Percentage of female students in four-year universities by
university ownership 172
8.1 Likelihood of labor market positions of married versus
single women, Japan and Taiwan 185
8.2 Comparisons of Japanese women s occupational
distributions 186
8.3. Percentage of ever-married, working-age Taiwanese women
in the labor force by their first occupation 189
8.4 Job growth rates by gender and employment status in
Japan, 1996 to 2007 191
Tables
1.1 Comparison of Japan and Taiwan 5
2.1 Average number of jobs experienced throughout men s and
women s employment careers 31
2.2 Distribution of current labor market position by gender and
frequency of employer changes 34
3.1 Occupational distributions of the female labor force in Japan
and Taiwan 48
6.1 Description of work trajectories of homemaking women,
ages 25 to 60 128
B.l Descriptive statistics of the SSM and TSC samples by
gender 205
B.2 Ordinary least squares regression analysis of log annual
earnings 206
B.3 Discrete-time event history models predicting labor force
exits at any point of time 208
B.4 Discrete-time event history models predicting labor force exit
upon marriage 210
B.5 Discrete-time event history models predicting labor force exit
around first childbirth 212
B.6 Discrete-time event history models predicting labor
force reentry 214
B.7 Multinomial logit models predicting married women s
current work status in Japan 215
B.8 Multinomial logit models predicting women s current
occupational status 216
B.9 Multinomial logit models predicting women s current
organizational locations 217
B.10 Multinomial logit models predicting women s current
employment status 218
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