By M. Murayama
Even supposing jap fiscal improvement is usually mentioned, much less cognizance is given to social improvement, and masses much less to gender similar matters. by way of reading eastern stories on the topic of gender, the authors search insights appropriate to the present constructing international locations. at the same time, the ebook issues out the significance for jap society to attract classes from the creativity and activism of girls in constructing nations.
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One of the features of late industrialization, in the case of both Japan and the present developing countries, is the uneven and telescoped pattern of economic development. In analysing disparities among the various dimensions of human life, the author cites the necessity for multidimensional welfare indicators. Deconstructed indicators, namely health (life expectancy), education (school enrolment/average years of schooling) and income (daily wages of factory workers) provide a view of the smallest and largest improvements took in health and education.
9–20) examined historical statistics regarding primary school enrolment in prewar Japan from the 1890s to the 1930s. In this study she suggests that official figures tend to overestimate the rate of female school attendance, and that universal primary education for girls lagged behind that of boys. Hijikata concludes that it was only in the 1930s that universal primary education for girls was achieved in Japan (in other words, thirty years later than for boys). Utilizing a case study of HigashiMatsuyama City (Saitama Prefecture), Hijikata (1994, pp.
After 1958, the administration of family planning programmes was transferred to local government, and maternal and child health centres began to provide health services including prenatal assistance. The author provides a detailed analysis of the work of the ‘New Life Movement’. It was unique in the sense that the promoting organization worked together with employers and trade unions to promote family planning from the standpoint of ‘workers’ welfare’. The wives of employees were organized into small groups.