Childbearing and Careers of Japanese Women Born in the 1960s A Life Course That Brought Unintended Low Fertility
This book provides the keys to understanding the trajectory that Japanese society has followed toward its lowest-low fertility since the 1980s. The characteristics of the life course of women born in the 1960s, who were the first cohort to enter that trajectory, are explored by using both qualitativ...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Tokyo
Springer Japan
2015, 2015
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2015 |
| Series: | Population Studies of Japan
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Cohort Analysis of Pregnancy Attempts
- 3 Cohort-Specific Life Experiences under Rapidly Changing Socioeconomic Conditions
- 4 Women’s Career Development under Japanese Human Resource Management System
- 5 The Work-Family Interface: Balancing on a Knife’s Edge
- 6 Concluding Remarks