抄録
A variety of problems related to gender appeared as a result of the Hanshin-Awaji Great Earthquake. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the problems in terms of family relations, employment and housework. We questioned high school and college students and members of a labor union about their family life, using the questionnaire method.
The date showed that the students' parents whose houses had been damaged due to the earthquake worked together and talked with each other about many problems, and this corporation increased their stress. Among the fathers of the students whose houses had been damaged, 1/3 of them gave priority to their company over home life (4/5 mothers, home life). Soon after the earthquake all members of the family shared some housework and fathers did non-daily housework. All of the family members took shares in some housework. Six months after the earthquake, however, most of the housework came to be performed by the mother alone as it used to be.
We also interviewed some of those women who had been dismissed from work. They said part-time workers, mostly women, were dismissed easily and couldn't get the same job again.
