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This article aims at making an analytical framework for women's work on family farms.
In former studies the sexual division of agricultural labor has already been grasped in Japanese family farms. However, a valuation basis of labor established a priori has been used and a subjective valuation by farmers themselves has been left out in analyzing the data.
Inspired by C. Delphy's study of labor and status in French agriculture, I focused on the phenomenon that a certain kind of labor was characterized as “labor suitable for women” (engendered labor).
I tried to formulate a mechanism for evaluating the agricultural labor of women from interviews with them.
As a result, I found out that (1) engendering their labor tends to hide women's overwork, (2) women engendered their labor strategically for acquire territory, where they can exercise their discretion.
As a background of (2), I also pointed out the relations between having little chance to learn skills, having no means of production and changes in the family farming system.

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In industrialized society, more and more women are working outside the home, and, it is recognized that the inequalities between men and women in the work place are being improved. Then, how about in marriage? Has the participation of women in workforce raised the economic status of wives relative to that of their husbands? We have not discussed enough about the “economic dependency” of married women, though economic independency is indispensable to women's overall independency, and we have not developed effective methods to measure women's economic status within couples in Japan. On the contrary, we find studies in Europe and U. S. A. that focus on that issue and measure the extent to which a married woman depends on her husband economically using an original numerical indicator. This paper first elucidates the framework of “economic dependency, ” outlines studies in foreign countries, and examines the previous studies concerning those carried out in Japan, suggesting that there is no public data which is available to analyze the status of women's “economic dependency” within couples. Second, it analyzes the current status of married women's “economic dependency” in Japan, though the data is restricted. It shows that the degree of economic dependency is not improved, in spite of the fact that married women are participating increasingly in the workforce.

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