LEADER 04811nam 22007335 450 001 9910483158103321 005 20200920123459.0 010 $a4-431-55066-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-4-431-55066-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000414328 035 $a(EBL)2095385 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001501384 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11918406 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001501384 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11524855 035 $a(PQKB)11544344 035 $a(DE-He213)978-4-431-55066-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2095385 035 $a(PPN)186027338 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000414328 100 $a20150511d2015 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChildbearing and Careers of Japanese Women Born in the 1960s $eA Life Course That Brought Unintended Low Fertility /$fby Yukiko Senda 205 $a1st ed. 2015. 210 1$aTokyo :$cSpringer Japan :$cImprint: Springer,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (137 p.) 225 1 $aPopulation Studies of Japan,$x2198-2724 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a4-431-55065-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. 327 $a1 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. 330 $aThis book provides the keys to understanding the trajectory that Japanese society has followed toward its lowest-low fertility since the 1980s. The characteristics of the life course of women born in the 1960s, who were the first cohort to enter that trajectory, are explored by using both qualitative and quantitative data analyses. Among the many books explaining the decline in fertility, this book is unique in four ways. First, it describes in detail the reality of factors concerning the fertility decline in Japan. Second, the book uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to introduce the whole picture of how the low-fertility trend began in the 1980s and developed in the 1990s and thereafter. Third, the focus is on a specific birth cohort because their experiences determined the current patterns of family formation such as late marriage and postponed childbirth. Fourth, the book explores the knife-edge balance between work and family conditions, especially with regard to childbearing, in the context of Japanese management and gender norms. After examining the characteristics of demographic and socioeconomic circumstances of postwar Japan in detail, it can be seen that the change in family formation first occurred drastically in the 1960s cohort. Using both qualitative interview data cumulatively from 150 people and quantitative estimates with official statistics, this book shows how individual-level choices to balance work and family obligations resulted in a national-level fertility decline. Another focus of this book is the increasing unintended infertility due to postponed pregnancy, a phenomenon that is attracting great social attention because the average age of pregnancy is approaching the biological limit. This book is a valuable resource for researchers who are interested in the rapid fertility decline as well as the work?life balance and the life course of women in Japanese employment practice and family traditions.  . 410 0$aPopulation Studies of Japan,$x2198-2724 606 $aDemography 606 $aFamilies 606 $aFamilies?Social aspects 606 $aSociology 606 $aPopulation 606 $aDemography$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X25000 606 $aFamily$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X27000 606 $aGender Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X35000 606 $aPopulation Economics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W38000 615 0$aDemography. 615 0$aFamilies. 615 0$aFamilies?Social aspects. 615 0$aSociology. 615 0$aPopulation. 615 14$aDemography. 615 24$aFamily. 615 24$aGender Studies. 615 24$aPopulation Economics. 676 $a304.6320952 700 $aSenda$b Yukiko$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0921276 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483158103321 996 $aChildbearing and Careers of Japanese Women Born in the 1960s$92854352 997 $aUNINA