Childbearing and Careers of Japanese Women Born in the 1960s A Life Course That Brought Unintended Low Fertility /

• Main Author: Senda, Yukiko (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Population Studies,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Population.; Sociology.; Demography.; Families.; Families > Social aspects.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; Social Sciences.; Family.; Gender Studies.; Population Economics.

This book provides the keys to understanding the trajectory that Japanese society has followed toward its lowest-low fertility since the 1980s. The characteristics of the life course of women born in the 1960s, who were the first cohort to enter that trajectory, are explored by using both qualitativ...