表題番号:2019C-388 日付:2020/04/05
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) Observatoire Sociologique de Changement, Sciences-Po, Paris Research Fellow Umegaki-Costantini, Hiroko
研究成果概要
This research concerns how middle-class families in Paris and Tokyo balance their working lives and their family lives in contemporary society.  While the societies are quite different in many respects, they also have points in common--they are both post-modern democracies, both have high rates of education for women and a substantial presence of women in employment, and both experienced demographic decline in more recent years.  France, however, though government policy that emphasizes thick support for families, has managed to stave the sharp decline in the birth rate, while Japan has not taken this route and is still confronted with a very low birthrate.  Our research, is an anthropological study, based on narrative in-depth interviews of middle and upper-middle class working men and women in Paris and Tokyo.  It asks these families how they manage their everyday schedules, who takes care of the family, how their relatives and partners are involved, what sorts of services they use from the government and their satisfaction with that, and their conception of the family and the couple, and their hopes for their futures.  We are currently writing an academic paper based on our analysis from these cases.