抄録
This study examines the characteristics of the residential locations of working women in the Tokyo metropolitan area, based on a questionnaire survey and some interviews. The spatial differentiation of residential location is discerned among groups of working women. In particular, the residential locations of married women in nuclear family households are more concentrated around inner Tokyo than those of married childless women. This is different from the spatial pattern suggested by the life cycle theory. Restrictions of time in women's everyday lives, location of husbands' workplace, and difference in the resignation rate between inner Tokyo dwellers and suburban dwellers are investigated as the factors that cause the residential location differentiation among groups of working women. Single working women are quite mobile in terms of residence and move mainly around inner Tokyo. Some single women purchase their own houses. Although the circumstances thus far do not easily allow single women to buy their own houses, the number of single female owner occupiers is expected to increase.
