“Childcare is the woman’s responsibility” – a deep-rooted role consciousness highlighted – 60％ of full-time working women change their working style after giving birth．
The Shinano Mainichi Shimbun, in collaboration with Connecthito (Tokyo), a company that operates a child-rearing support app, conducted an online survey on working while raising children among mothers across the country. Nearly 60% of women who worked as full-time permanent employees changed their working style to part-time or reduced hours after giving birth – graph. This has once again highlighted the fact that the deeply rooted social role perception that “childcare is the responsibility of women” has a major impact on the way women work. The survey was conducted in September last year among users of “Mamari,” an app for mothers developed by Konnehito. 2,838 people responded. Of the 1,123 people who were full-time permanent employees before giving birth (excluding those on maternity or childcare leave), 38% changed to permanent employment with reduced hours. Part-time workers and casual employees came in next at 11%, followed by full-time housewives at 5%. Others include 2% looking for work and 1% self-employed/freelance. After giving birth, 42% of women continued to work full-time as regular employees in the same way as before giving birth. On the other hand, a 2021 survey by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (Tokyo) found that 81% of husbands (aged 45-49) worked as “regular employees.” This is almost the same as the 82% who were in this position immediately after graduating from school and the 85% who were in this position when they decided to get married, and the institute states that “it is not conceivable that marriage or wives having children have caused any changes in working styles.” ◼ Expert: “Employer awareness is also a factor” In this survey, we also asked people who changed their working style from full-time to part-time after giving birth why (multiple answers allowed). Of the options, “It’s difficult to share housework and childcare responsibilities with my family” accounted for 40%. In the free-form comments, some people said things like, “It’s difficult for me to choose anything other than part-time work because I don’t have my husband’s understanding or cooperation,” and “I feel a sense of loss now that I no longer have the career I had before giving birth.” Takumi Fujinami, a senior research scientist at the Japan Research Institute (Tokyo), analyzed the survey results, saying, “It reflects a situation in which the perception that it is the wife who is responsible for childcare, housework, and elderly care in the family is deeply rooted in society.” They point out that a major factor is the perception on the part of employers that “it is the wife, not the husband, who should change her working style to accommodate childcare.” ◇ [About the survey] The survey was conducted among users of Mamari, an app for mothers developed and operated by Konnehito. Responses were received from 2,838 women who were raising children or pregnant. Survey period: September 2-3, 9-10, 2023
Survey method: Online survey
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With the vision of “creating a society where you can realize your family image,” the company develops and operates the app and information site “Mamari” for mothers, provides comprehensive child-rearing support, and provides support for companies and local governments in obtaining childcare leave. Homepage [Shinano Mainichi Shimbun Digital] 2024/7/29 (Mon) 7:03.
We should think about which is biologically correct, not the modern social climate of gender equality. In primates and even in modern primitive human societies, females are the ones who raise children, so it makes sense to think that this is correct.
> 42% of women continued to work full-time as permanent employees after giving birth, in the same way they did before giving birth. ↑It’s simply amazing.
Japan’s biggest problem is that the labor market does not provide equal pay for equal work, and since it is not easy to fire full-time employees, non-regular workers serve as a safety valve for employment. As a result, if a worker loses their permanent position for some reason, with the exception of a few, they become a low-paid non-regular worker, and women who leave work due to pregnancy or childbirth are forced to work at low wages. It is impossible to change this structure because parties from the Liberal Democratic Party to the Communist Party are trying to protect the vested interests of full-time employees.
Unlike a woman who gives birth in pain, a man is always haunted by the question of whether the child is really his or hers, as Taigong Wang said in the Engeki of the Gods.
That’s why we should make DNA testing mandatory to make fathers aware of their status.
Even if we try to increase the number of female managers, these roles themselves require a certain amount of “self-sacrifice,” which is completely at odds with the trend toward work-life balance that is currently seen among young people. Also, if you put emotionally unstable people or people with menopausal disorders in managerial positions, it will disorganize the organization and cause a lot of trouble for subordinates and colleagues, so it is important to select people without considering gender.
>>23 The truth is, the world’s leaders are aware of this and are trying to weaken the world economy lol To eliminate the barriers between countries and create a one-world government lol …but it looks like it’s going to fail.
Being a man, I thought that women had a maternal instinct to want to raise children, but is that not the case? Also, is it okay for women to work and men to take care of the children? I think both men and women in Japan have assigned roles.
Children are more likely to pick up words from a female voice that has a similar tone to theirs, whereas children won’t pick up words from a man’s voice that sounds like a clogged sewer.
Whenever a mistake or inconvenience occurs at work, for some reason, his child becomes ill, he takes two or three days off, and then comes back to work as if nothing had happened, as if he had timed it to resolve the problem or transfer the responsibility. It’s about you!
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