表題番号:2018K-394 日付:2019/04/08
研究課題Women, Work and Family in the 21st Century: A Comparison between Japanese and French.
研究者所属(当時) 資格 氏名
(代表者) 国際学術院 大学院アジア太平洋研究科 教授 ロバーツ グレンダ S
(連携研究者) Sciences-Po Professor Umegaki-Costantini, Hiroko
研究成果概要

This research project seeks to understand family organization and social change in the 21st century, especially in regard to work/life balance, gender roles, and caregiving.  With this fund from Waseda University in 2018, with the collaboration of Professor Hiroko Umegaki-Costantini who also secured research funds from her university, Sciences-Po, I was able to make substantial progress on the research.  The French side of the research ended in May last year when we completed 30 research interviews with men and women who had at least one child under the age of 18.   Dr. Umegaki-Costantini of Sciences-Po and I wrote a preliminary research presentation based on our study, presenting it at the Historical Demography seminar of Professor Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux of the EHESS, in May 2018. Preliminary findings indicate that although the French have more social supports for work/life balance, it remains a problem in their family lives.  We received excellent feedback which encouraged us to look further into social class aspects of work/life balance and care. Hence I plan to take another trip to Paris in the next phase of this research in order to interview people of more varied socio-economic backgrounds. I also presented this research to the faculty of GSAPS when I returned from my sabbatical leave in September, 2018.