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The percentage of women who work in Japan is higher than ever, yet cultural norms have not caught up. More and more, women are rejecting the double standard.
The percentage of women who work in Japan is higher than ever, yet cultural norms have not caught up: Japanese wives and mothers are still typically expected to bear the brunt of the housework, child care and help for their aging relatives, a factor that stymies many of their careers.
Fed up with the double standard, Japanese women are increasingly opting out of marriage altogether, focusing on their work and newfound freedoms, but also alarming politicians preoccupied with trying to reverse Japan’s declining population.
As recently as the mid-1990s, only one in 20 women in Japan had never been married by the time they turned 50, according to government census figures. But by 2015, the most recent year for which statistics are available, that had changed drastically, with one in seven women remaining unmarried by that age.
And for women ages 35 to 39, the percentage was even higher: Nearly a quarter had never been married, compared with only about 10 percent two decades earlier.
The change is so striking that a growing number of businesses now cater to singles, and to single women in particular.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/03/world/asia/japan-single-women-marriage.html
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I find it really sad more and more people are choosing their job over family. Its all good when you in your 20s and feel untouchable. But what happens when you in 50s and all alone? My mum has 6 kids and her friend has no kids and never married. I feel she lices a very lonely kife where she has to do everything by heself. While my mums 6 kids all adults now we all give her money while she has her own shop. If she needs anything there is always one of us there. Children are the greatest resources imo.
The percentage of women who work in Japan is higher than ever, yet cultural norms have not caught up. More and more, women are rejecting the double standard.
The percentage of women who work in Japan is higher than ever, yet cultural norms have not caught up: Japanese wives and mothers are still typically expected to bear the brunt of the housework, child care and help for their aging relatives, a factor that stymies many of their careers.
Fed up with the double standard, Japanese women are increasingly opting out of marriage altogether, focusing on their work and newfound freedoms, but also alarming politicians preoccupied with trying to reverse Japan’s declining population.
As recently as the mid-1990s, only one in 20 women in Japan had never been married by the time they turned 50, according to government census figures. But by 2015, the most recent year for which statistics are available, that had changed drastically, with one in seven women remaining unmarried by that age.
And for women ages 35 to 39, the percentage was even higher: Nearly a quarter had never been married, compared with only about 10 percent two decades earlier.
The change is so striking that a growing number of businesses now cater to singles, and to single women in particular.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/03/world/asia/japan-single-women-marriage.html
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I find it really sad more and more people are choosing their job over family. Its all good when you in your 20s and feel untouchable. But what happens when you in 50s and all alone? My mum has 6 kids and her friend has no kids and never married. I feel she lices a very lonely kife where she has to do everything by heself. While my mums 6 kids all adults now we all give her money while she has her own shop. If she needs anything there is always one of us there. Children are the greatest resources imo.
