女性の職業達成と教育達成  [in Japanese] Women's Occupational and Educational Attainments  [in Japanese]

This paper attempts to describe a correlation between women's educational attainments and occupational attainments and to clarify the relationship between sex segregation in the labor market and educational attainments. The increasing number of women with higher education is not a major factor in the increasing percentage of women who work. And the most significant factor is the increasing number of middle-age workers who graduated from high school. The pattern of career differs according to educational attainment. Women with higher education differentiate into two patterns. One is to continue working, and the other is to quit to job for marriage or childbearing, never re-entering the labor market. Women with lower education tend to re-enter the labour market in middle-age. The degree and the pattern of job segregation by sex differs according to educational attainment, but it exists in each group. Therefore, improvements in women's educational attainments don't necessarily improve the occupational oportunities. The effect of women's educational attainment is greatly than that of men, but this is true only for the first job. The effect of educational attainment is weakened at re-entry. The relationship between educational attainment and occupatioanl attainment differs according to gender, and the relationship between gender and occupational attainment differs according to educational attainment.