 Male and female patterns of labour force participation: a comparison between France and JapanPost-Print from HAL Abstract: This article seeks to compare the patterns of articulation - in France and Japan - between the men's activity and women's activity in the society. In particular, we focus on the differences of activity models between French and Japanese women, which can be considered as a good analyser to reveal a specific - and national - form of interdependence between work, family and society. Based on the descriptive macro-statistic method, we aim to show that the national model of women's activity doesn't originate purely neither from the individual rational choice - cost/advantage calculation within the household - nor from the national culture domination. We posit that such a model is a social ‘fabric' which is constructed on the interaction between the strategic interplay of various actors and the national representation of family crystallized in the public social policies. Keywords: female activity; labour force participation pattern; family; comparison France/Japan; public policy; comparaison France/Japon; modèle d'activité féminine; famille; politiques sociales (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Marc Maurice, Arndt Sorge. Embedding Organizations : Societal Analysis of Actors, Organisations and Socio-economic Contexts, Johon Benjamins Publishing Company, pp.373-388, 2000, Advances in organization studies ; 4 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00391518 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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