女性の職業アスピレーション

その背景, 構成要素, ライフコースとの関連

抄録

Female life courses exhibit many patterns, and these cannot be analyzed as they can for males, using one model of graduation from school and then working continuously. Some females become housewives without entering the labor market, while others work for a period, marry and bear children, and then reenter the market later. In short, female's work life is closely associated with their home life and with life events they experience as female. Female aspirations arise from the combination of occupational and marital aspirations. In particular, female marital aspirations in Japan have certain characteristics.
This paper considers these issues for a sample of females with high occupational attainment, namely female executives, in Tokyo and New York.