Offers new insights into the gender division of labour that exists in Japan
Comes at a time when the Japanese economy is forcing many (particularly women) into part-time work, making it an increasingly significant form of paid work in Japan
Will appeal to researchers and students of Japanese area studies, gender studies and employment relations
'Women's Employment in Japan gives a detailed exposition of how part-time work in Japan is culturally and institutionally structured as the work of married women. ... It presents a great deal of valuable information that is not easily accessible eslewhere in the English-language literature.' - The Journal of Asian Studies
Kaye Broadbent lectures in the School of Industrial Relations, Griffith University. She co-edited Employment Relations in the Asia Pacific: Changing Approaches (2000). She has been a visiting researcher at the Insitute of Social Science, University of Tokyo. Her areas of interest include gender, work and unions in a comparative context.