Titre :	Women and social class
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Année de publication :	2010
Importance :	p 41-66
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Catégories :	SCIENCES SOCIALES
Mots-clés :	GENRE  JAPON  CLASSE SOCIALE  FEMME AU TRAVAIL
Résumé :	In this study of the new inequality among women in Japan, the first issue the author wants to look at is women’s social class or women’s status. Specific variables associated with inequality include income, assets, standard of living, education, occupation, employment status, marriage and children but class –or household’s overall livelihood and social standing –can be considered as encompassing all of these. Therefore, before examining inequality among women in relation to each of those individual variables, he analyzes class or status in relation to women to gain an overview. This issue of women and social class/status presents us with a very complex problem: should we derive a woman’s class/status based on the woman herself or based on the household of which the woman is a part? If we focus on the woman herself, no particular problem in assigning class arises if she is unmarried. If we focus on the household, the woman might have a husband and she herself may or may not be engaged in paid employment. The question then arises of on whom the household’s status should be based: should we focus on the husband or the wife or both? Rather complex issues arise, therefore, when we focus on the household in assigning class. In this chapter, the author first wrestles with this issue: how should a woman’s social class be determined? Once he considers that issue, he looks at the impact the social class of parents has on that of a daughter. He also looks at the social class that a daughter joins when she marries and creates a household of her own. Of course, the question of what social class men join when they marry is also intriguing but it cannot be denied that marriage has a much greater impact on the social class of women.
Numéro du document :	A 9927/SOC
Niveau Bibliographique :	2
Bull1 (Theme principale) :	SOCIOLOGIE
Bull2 (Theme secondaire) :	GROUPES SOCIAUX

Women and social class [texte imprimé] . - 2010 . - p 41-66.
Langues : Anglais (eng)

Catégories :	SCIENCES SOCIALES
Mots-clés :	GENRE  JAPON  CLASSE SOCIALE  FEMME AU TRAVAIL
Résumé :	In this study of the new inequality among women in Japan, the first issue the author wants to look at is women’s social class or women’s status. Specific variables associated with inequality include income, assets, standard of living, education, occupation, employment status, marriage and children but class –or household’s overall livelihood and social standing –can be considered as encompassing all of these. Therefore, before examining inequality among women in relation to each of those individual variables, he analyzes class or status in relation to women to gain an overview. This issue of women and social class/status presents us with a very complex problem: should we derive a woman’s class/status based on the woman herself or based on the household of which the woman is a part? If we focus on the woman herself, no particular problem in assigning class arises if she is unmarried. If we focus on the household, the woman might have a husband and she herself may or may not be engaged in paid employment. The question then arises of on whom the household’s status should be based: should we focus on the husband or the wife or both? Rather complex issues arise, therefore, when we focus on the household in assigning class. In this chapter, the author first wrestles with this issue: how should a woman’s social class be determined? Once he considers that issue, he looks at the impact the social class of parents has on that of a daughter. He also looks at the social class that a daughter joins when she marries and creates a household of her own. Of course, the question of what social class men join when they marry is also intriguing but it cannot be denied that marriage has a much greater impact on the social class of women.
Numéro du document :	A 9927/SOC
Niveau Bibliographique :	2
Bull1 (Theme principale) :	SOCIOLOGIE
Bull2 (Theme secondaire) :	GROUPES SOCIAUX