Gender equality and women's pension rights in Japan

In recent years, derived pensions for housewives have drawn criticisms in Japan as a gender bias for the male breadwinner/female homemaker households. Many prominent feminists support measures to remove or curtail these arrangements in favour of a gender neutral pension system. Nonetheless, it is an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kobatake, Kikuka
Published: London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) 2008
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.582526