ISBN:
9781138025189
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (271 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Career Women in Contemporary Japan : Pursuing Identities, Fashioning Lives
DDC:
305.40952
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Since Japan's economic recession began in the 1990s, the female workforce has experienced revolutionary changes as greater numbers of women have sought to establish careers. Employment trends indicate that increasingly white-collar professional women are succeeding in breaking through the ""glass ceiling"", as digital technologies blur and redefine work in spatial, gendered, and ideological terms.This book examines what motivates Japanese women to pursue professional careers in the contemporary neoliberal economy, and how they reconfigure notions of selfhood while doing so. It analyses how pro
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Explanatory notes; 1 Introduction; Times of major transitions; Postwar Japan - gendering the workforce and diverging paths; Professional aspirations and career options; Positionality in a shifting field; Structure of the book; 2 Women and work in modern Japan; Identity and the shaping of white-collar career trajectories; Japan as a neoliberal economy - critical perspectives on knowledge, power, and practice; 3 Identity, family, and career; Identity and selfhood; Aspects of an aging society
Description / Table of Contents:
Low birth and high divorce ratesWorkforce participation of women and work-life integration; 4 Pioneering female career tracks in Japan - women in their sixties and above; Nomura Mihoko and others - the outliers; Conclusion; 5 The performative aspect of self-fulfilling prophecies - women in their fifties; Imagawa Tomiko and Kawamori Mieko - the forerunners; Conclusion; 6 Through the labyrinth of their working lives - women in their forties; Fukuyama Noriko and others - "last chance" anxieties; Conclusion; 7 Reevaluating the self - women in their thirties
Description / Table of Contents:
Kishimoto Yoshie and Fukuda Reiko - conflicting life choicesConclusion; 8 Transitioning to a career - women in their twenties; Suzuki Masako and Nagata Yoko - finding one's path in uncertain times; Conclusion; 9 Conclusion; The "career woman" archetype; Constant transitions; Future prospects; Appendix - list of informants; Glossary; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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