Childbearing and Careers of Japanese Women Born in the 1960s: A Life Course That Brought Unintended Low Fertility

• Main Author: Senda, Yukiko
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences; Fertility; Human; Women; History; Childfree choice; Demography; Childfree choice; Fertility; Population; Sociology; Gender Studies; Japan; 20th century; 304.6320952
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/75357
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

​This book provides the keys to understanding the trajectory that Japanese society has followed toward its lowest-low fertility since the 1980s. The characteristics of the life course of women born in the 1960s, who were the first cohort to enter that trajectory, are explored by using both qualitati...