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Summary:

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 qualitative and quantitative data analyses. Among the many books explaining the decline in fertility, this book is unique in four ways. First, it describes in detail the reality of factors concerning the fertility decline in Japan. Second, the book uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to introduce the whole picture of how the low-fertility trend began in the 1980s and developed in the 1990s and thereafter. Third, the focus is on a specific birth cohort because their experiences determined the current patterns of family formation such as late marriage and postponed childbirth. Fourth, the book explores the knife-edge balance between work and family conditions, especially with regard to childbearing, in the context of Japanese management and gender norms. After examining the characteristics of demographic and socioeconomic circumstances of postwar Japan in detail, it can be seen that the change in family formation first occurred drastically in the 1960s cohort. Using both qualitative interview data cumulatively from 150 people and quantitative estimates with official statistics, this book shows how individual-level choices to balance work and family obligations resulted in a national-level fertility decline. Another focus of this book is the increasing unintended infertility due to postponed pregnancy, a phenomenon that is attracting great social attention because the average age of pregnancy is approaching the biological limit. This book is a valuable resource for researchers who are interested in the rapid fertility decline as well as the work?life balance and the life course of women in Japanese employment practice and family traditions.

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Cohort Analysis of Pregnancy Attempts
• 3 Cohort-Specific Life Experiences under Rapidly Changing Socioeconomic Conditions
• 4 Womens Career Development under Japanese Human Resource Management System
• 5 The Work-Family Interface: Balancing on a Knifes Edge
• 6 Concluding Remarks.

Author/Creator:

Senda, Yukiko , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Childbearing and careers of Japanese women born in the 1960s: a life course that brought unintended low fertility [by Senda, Y.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Childbearing and careers of Japanese women born in the 1960s [by Senda, Y.] (ISBN 9784431550655; OCLC Number 897103617)

Related Series:

SpringerBriefs in population studies > Populations studies of Japan

Subjects:

Fertility, Human — Japan

Women — Japan — History — 20th century

Childfree choice — Japan

Japan — Population

Childfree choice

Fertility, Human

Population

Japan

Women

1900-1999

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed May 15, 2015).

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HB1061 .S463 2015eb

ISBNs:

9784431550662 (electronic bk.)
4431550666 (electronic bk.)
9784431550655 [Invalid]
4431550658 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1007/978-4-431-55066-2

OCLC Numbers:

908839519