Gendered Trajectories - Women, Work, and Social Change in Japan and Taiwan

Zusatztext " Gendered Trajectories is a valuable contribution to our understanding of gender and social change. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses, the author links institutions to individuals' experiences to explain why there is greater gender inequality in Japan than Taiwan, despite their similarities in patterns of industrialization." Informationen zum Autor Wei-hsin Yu is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. Klappentext Through a detailed analysis of macroeconomic changes and individuals' lifetime employment trajectories, this book explains why Japan and Taiwan have experienced different levels of improvement in women's economic status over the last half century. Zusammenfassung Through a detailed analysis of macroeconomic changes and individuals' lifetime employment trajectories, this book explains why Japan and Taiwan have experienced different levels of improvement in women's economic status over the last half century.

Product details

• Authors: Wei-Hsin Yu
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.02.2009
• EAN: 9780804760096
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-6009-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Studies in Social Inequality; Studies in Social Inequality; Studies in Social Inequality (
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education