中国中年期女性の職業キャリアと家族キャリア : 北京におけるインタビューからの一考察  [in Japanese] Work and Family Careers of Chinese Middle-Aged Women : A Discussion Based on Interviews in Beijing  [in Japanese]

From the perspective of life course, I focused on Chinese middle-aged women's work careers, exploiting 14 interviews on women between age 45 to 59 who live in Beijing, and discussed the factors which impact on the formations of their work careers. Job shifts across different workplaces were found from most of the interviewees' experience. On the other hand, the wave tendency of career movement was also conceived to be another dimension in women's occupational lives. These typical phenomena can be considered as a consequence of the changes in Chinese society and national policies. But at the same time, the interviewees' narratives also show that these women's work careers are more significantly linked to their life events in terms of family careers comparing with their husbands, such as marriage, childbirth, childbearing, education of children, and taking care of close relatives. This indicates that the traditional norm of gender ideology still influences Chinese middle-aged women's consciousness, although the influence sometimes seems to be invisible because of the women's high employment rate and the so called gender equality in Chinese society.

From the perspective of life course, I focused on Chinese middle-aged women's work careers, exploiting 14 interviews on women between age 45 to 59 who live in Beijing, and discussed the factors which impact on the formations of their work careers. Job shifts across different workplaces were found from most of the interviewees' experience. On the other hand, the wave tendency of career movement was also conceived to be another dimension in women's occupational lives. These typical phenomena can be considered as a consequence of the changes in Chinese society and national policies. But at the same time, the interviewees' narratives also show that these women's work careers are more significantly linked to their life events in terms of family careers comparing with their husbands, such as marriage, childbirth, childbearing, education of children, and taking care of close relatives. This indicates that the traditional norm of gender ideology still influences Chinese middle-aged women's consciousness, although the influence sometimes seems to be invisible because of the women's high employment rate and the so called gender equality in Chinese society.