Female workers as Described in a Help-Wanted Information Magazine

Eiko Shinotsuka

Japanese Economy, 1984, vol. 12, issue 3, 3-20

Abstract: While it is true that the female labor force came to be more actively utilized during the period of rapid economic growth, this was largely due to a labor shortage. Fast-growing heavy industries required young male labor, and female labor supplemented male labor wherever the former was in short supply. It is also true that the female labor force provided a means for employment adjustment. Often referred to as a "peripheral labor force," female workers entered the labor market when business was picking up, and lost their jobs and returned to their homes when it turned slack. Thus, as a labor force, they were marginal, going back and forth between the labor market and the home.

Date: 1984
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