Contemporary Women's Employment in Japan: The Effects of State-Mandated Gender Roles, Wars, and Japan, Inc.

My research is centered around the questions: How can such a modernized country, considered by many to be the cleanest, friendliest, most welcoming place to visit (certainly surpassing the United States on such standards), not be more welcoming of women in employment? Further, what are the main prob...

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Main Author: Levonian, Megan
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Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2013
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spelling ndltd-CLAREMONT-oai-http---scholarship.claremont.edu-do-oai--cmc_theses-16452013-05-23T03:03:08Z Contemporary Women's Employment in Japan: The Effects of State-Mandated Gender Roles, Wars, and Japan, Inc. Levonian, Megan My research is centered around the questions: How can such a modernized country, considered by many to be the cleanest, friendliest, most welcoming place to visit (certainly surpassing the United States on such standards), not be more welcoming of women in employment? Further, what are the main problems hindering women in employment today, and from where do these problems originate? That is, how did the present situation for women’s employment in Japan come to light? I endeavor to answer these questions, beginning by uncovering the major issues in women’s employment and then tracing their origins back in history to discover when and why they developed into what they are today. 2013-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/618 http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1645&context=cmc_theses CMC Senior Theses Scholarship @ Claremont Japanese women's employment ryosai kenbo good wife wise mother dual track system
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topic Japanese women's employment
ryosai kenbo
good wife wise mother
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spellingShingle Japanese women's employment
ryosai kenbo
good wife wise mother
dual track system
Levonian, Megan
Contemporary Women's Employment in Japan: The Effects of State-Mandated Gender Roles, Wars, and Japan, Inc.
description My research is centered around the questions: How can such a modernized country, considered by many to be the cleanest, friendliest, most welcoming place to visit (certainly surpassing the United States on such standards), not be more welcoming of women in employment? Further, what are the main problems hindering women in employment today, and from where do these problems originate? That is, how did the present situation for women’s employment in Japan come to light? I endeavor to answer these questions, beginning by uncovering the major issues in women’s employment and then tracing their origins back in history to discover when and why they developed into what they are today.
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title Contemporary Women's Employment in Japan: The Effects of State-Mandated Gender Roles, Wars, and Japan, Inc.
title_short Contemporary Women's Employment in Japan: The Effects of State-Mandated Gender Roles, Wars, and Japan, Inc.
title_full Contemporary Women's Employment in Japan: The Effects of State-Mandated Gender Roles, Wars, and Japan, Inc.
title_fullStr Contemporary Women's Employment in Japan: The Effects of State-Mandated Gender Roles, Wars, and Japan, Inc.
title_full_unstemmed Contemporary Women's Employment in Japan: The Effects of State-Mandated Gender Roles, Wars, and Japan, Inc.
title_sort contemporary women's employment in japan: the effects of state-mandated gender roles, wars, and japan, inc.
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