The objective of this paper is to clarify the relationship between women's employment status and their life histories.
The situation of women's employment has remarkably changed. The most essential aspect of this change is that women's occupational careers have been more contingent on their life histories. The tendency has recently been strengthened that women firstly enter into the labor markets soon after completing school education, then separate from the labor markets for marriage, childbirth and childrearing, and re-enter after finishing the childrearing. Namely, entry into and separation from the labor markets at each life stage have been more frequent. It has, therefore, become more and more important to analyze the women's occupational achievement from the viewpoint of life history approach.
Women's occupational careers mainly consist of two phases. One is the primary career from entry into the lacbor markets after completing school education to separation from them for marriage, childbirth and childrearing, and the other is the secondary career after re-entry into the labor markets after finishing childrearing. The study of women's occupational achievement to date is used to focus on the continuation of career. But this paper claims, in addition to this, that the examination of the linkage between the two careers is more important as the problem of women's work careers.
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