ケイパビリティ・アプローチからみた未婚の女性非正規雇用者の生活課題

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  The purpose of this study is to clarify the life problems of unmarried women in non-regular employment. Amartya Sen's Capability Approach that provides a new way of understanding of life quality is applied in order to do so. The survey took the form of interviews which were conducted among 6 participants. The results of the survey were as follows: various social conditions that make it hard to escape non-regular employment or have stable income, such as fixed-term contracts system, unstable work environment and suspicion towards the pension system, made participants unable to think positively about the future. To resolve these life problems, I propose several measures: to secure the opportunity of stable employment for non-regular employees; to conduct a seminar that would educate people about the position of non-regular employees within the current economic structure; to introduce a policy that would improve the low wages of non-regular employees.