Shifting between Business and Home： Comparing female entrepreneurs between Japan and Taiwan

• Main Authors: YOSHIZAWA, KANAKO, 吉澤佳菜子
• Other Authors: TAI, PO-FEN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6uztn4

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 社會學系碩士班 === 106 === 　This research conducted interviews and analyses to compare the experiences between female entrepreneurs in Japan and Taiwan to understand the dilemma of concentrating on their businesses or on their families. 10 female entrepreneurs were selected and interviewed mainly from service industry field by snowball sampling method. This research analyzes how the governments of Japan and Taiwan help females start their own businesses through policies and how the social policies encourage females to create a career. On the other hand, this study also tries to figure out the differences of the motivations that Japanese and Taiwanese females start their businesses, the ways they take care of careers and families at the same time, and how a female’s role in a family supports or prevents females from establishing their careers. 　The common ground of the Japan and the Taiwan cases is that the entrepreneurial process has encountered difficulties and must face the dilemma between entrepreneurship and family. The biggest difference is in "differences in entrepreneurial culture thinking" and lack of entrepreneurial culture in Japanese society. Although the government provides entrepreneurial support, sexual discrimination, the support of family members has become the main driving force for women's entrepreneurship. In Taiwan, women have higher entrepreneurial opportunities, but the government support systems is not friendly. Individual entrepreneurship must face family challenges. In addition to family support, the system of providing babysitters can make up for the lack of housework.