Overview
- Incorporates subjective well-being measures into a demographic study
- Investigates perceptions toward family and work in low-fertility East Asia
- Points to the difficulties in balancing family and work due to gender-based social structures
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Population Studies (BRIEFSPOPULAT)
Part of the book sub series: Population Studies of Japan (POPULAT)
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About this book
This book is the first of its kind to incorporate subjective well-being (SWB) data to comprehensively explore perceptional factors that relate to fertility behavior in East Asia. The advantage of SWB data lies in the accessibility to rich information regarding perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors. With this advantage, the book inquires into the perceptions toward family and work and explores the attitudes that lead to low fertility in the region.
To this end, first a comparative analysis with international cross-sectional data is performed and the East Asian characteristics of family and work perceptions are documented. Then, three democracies in the region are focused on—Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan—to investigate the relationships between cultural orientations, work–life balance, and fertility outcomes with panel data. In addition, East Asian results are compared with those in India, which has also been experiencing a rapid transition from a traditional society to anindustrial one. The results support the idea that the friction between persistent gender-based role divisions and socioeconomic transformation in East Asia makes it difficult for women to balance family and work, prompting fertility decline to the lowest-low level in the region.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Eriko Teramura is a professor at Meikai University in Japan. She received her Ph.D. in Social Sciences from Ochanomizu University. Her areas of expertise are human resource management, labor economics, and gender studies. Her experience in the private sector has given her a unique perspective regarding family dynamics, demographics, and corporate labor issues. Her main interest is in examining gender disparity within the private sector. In addition to this book, she has co-authored “Wellbeing and policy in Japan,” Briguglio M., et.al (ed.) "Wellbeing and Policy: Evidence for Action"(2023 (in press), Routledge), and other Japanese books such as "Women's work and Japanese workplaces: workplace atmosphere and women's work styles after the Equal Employment Opportunity Law"(2022, Koyo Shobo).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Perception of Family and Work in Low-Fertility East Asia
Editors: Junji Kageyama, Eriko Teramura
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Population Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3859-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-3858-2Published: 30 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-3859-9Published: 29 August 2023
Series ISSN: 2211-3215
Series E-ISSN: 2211-3223
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 80
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Demography, Sociology of Work, Gender Studies