Family Life in Japan and Germany - Challenges for a Gender-Sensitive Family Policy

This volume addresses the family situation in Japan and Germany. Gender-segregated labor markets and precarious employment patterns bear detrimental consequences for the socioeconomic capacity to maintain family households and to have children. By applying a gender-sensitive approach, this volume's focus is on the impact of family law, family policy , and family support measures. Scholars from Japan and Germany examine differences and characteristics of social security legislation, intergenerational support systems, single-parent families, inequality among households and poverty situations, local domestic and care service provision, female labor market participation, parental leave systems, organization of child care, domestic violence, historical developments of housework as an institution, and labor market policies. 

List of contents

Gender-sensitive analysis of the family situation in Japan and Germany.- Comparative studies of family policy, welfare and social security institutions.- Empirical surveys and data analysis of the growing diversity of families and households.  

Product details

• Assisted by: Uta Meier-Gräwe (Editor), Miyoko Motozawa (Editor), Annette Schad-Seifert (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9783658266370
• ISBN: 978-3-658-26637-0
• No. of pages: 297
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 210 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 401 g
• Illustrations: VIII, 297 p. 73 illus.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; B, Sozialwesen und soziale Dienste, Kommunal-, Regional- Landes und Lokalregierung, Family, Social Policy, Social groups, Labor Market, Social Sciences, Sociology: family & relationships, Family Law, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, families, domestic violence, Central / national / federal government policies, Families—Social aspects, Child care, Male breadwinner/female homemaker