Single Mothers in the Pandemic: Job Loss, Shrinking Incomes, and Scant Support This article looks at how working mothers have been hit particularly hard by job losses for workers in casual or part-time positions with low job security during the pandemic. This has heavily impacted the livelihoods of single-parent families, particularly single mothers. The article includes the stories of two women who lost their jobs. Nippon.com, 12 Feb 2021.
Japanese temp worker fights for labor rights as companies avoid hiring full-time staff This articles looks at the experiences of Teruko Watanabe, a temp workers who was fired, and at changes in the law for temporary workers and three effects this is having. Japan Times, 7 Feb 2018.
Labor law reform raises rather than relieves workers’ worries by Hifumi Okunuki. This article discusses the problems for temporary workers caused by the August 2012 reform of the Labor Contract Act related to fixed-term employment. Japan Times, Mar 19, 2013.
Japanese Women Face Tough Reality in Work and Marriage As well as looking at two reasons for the gender gap at work in Japan, traditional ideas about the role of husband and wife and corporate discrimination, this article briefly looks at how women's increased labour force participation has involved a decrease in full-time work and an increase in part-time and temporary work. Nippon.com 20 Aug 2015.
Female non-regular workers in Japan: their current status and health by Mariko INOUE, Mariko NISHIKITANI, and Shinobu TSURUGANO An academic article that looks at the situation of full-time, part-time and other types of 'precarious' work (part-time, temporary, dispatch, etc) on the women. Industrial Health, Nov 2016.
Poverty a growing problem for women An article that looks at the increase in poverty amongst women in Japan, which reports that '1 in 3 women in Japan aged between 20 and 64 who live alone are living in poverty' and includes discussion of the connection between irregular work and female poverty in japan. Japan Times, 19 Apr 2012.
Can ‘Womenomics’ Stem the Feminisation of Poverty in Japan? This article considers reasons for the increase in female poverty in Japan, including the role of irregular work, and looks at whether measures by the Abe government will really lead to greater gender equality in work. InterPress Service, 18 Sep 2014.