{"id":6006,"date":"2016-11-16T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=6006"},"modified":"2016-11-15T12:19:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T17:19:39","slug":"paternity-leave-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2016\/11\/16\/paternity-leave-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Paternity Leave in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6008\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6008\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ricardojesusflores\/6673163325\/in\/photolist-baFGY6-qvdoSG-e4BWBf-aJF2gM-9k81Ft-iUViM-bcs5Nk-ohkh2b-aAvJPn-rpNEWR-kpC8x8-8UyERo-EpB59-dmpbvA-7LAwHr-sjjW7N-kpCXs4-4sh4xj-cR5kW7-GCng3-bsPJJr-rrDhKe-aNZkaM-25UAMK-fv8Qv9-5YPGPg-boVvSK-a4xvJA-kpC9eP-uUfJtW-cb5N25-dGVQmC-8GaejE-boVV5H-boVvyx-dV28DW-8UyDvu-eZzBrY-fTRP7-5ZSsBx-5ZSsn8-9NkwCT-du1bp9-af1TB-ckXpxo-hB7eAb-eExu1g-cb5Nhw-drRTir-5fFVq9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6008\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2016\/11\/6673163325_d86f2e96dd_z.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Rick Flores, Flickr CC\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2016\/11\/6673163325_d86f2e96dd_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2016\/11\/6673163325_d86f2e96dd_z-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Rick Flores, Flickr CC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Japan is known for its stressful corporate culture where overwork is very common. At the same time, Japan\u2019s population is on the wane as the birth rate continues to\u00a0drop. A recent article in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seeker.com\/how-dads-taking-paternity-leave-could-save-japans-economy-2093405965.html\">Seeker<\/a><\/em>\u00a0highlights new research by University of Illinois sociology professor <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociology.illinois.edu\/people\/eunmimun\">Eunmi Mun<\/a>\u00a0that<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> may be able to tackle both of these problems at once with an innovative, if straightforward, idea: expanding paternity leave. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Mun explains, Japanese norms regarding commitment to your job, the division of labor, and gender roles &#8212; norms quite similar to those in the United States &#8212; are driving factors in the dynamics described above. Mun explains,<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cTaking leave is definitely a violation of that work culture and ideology. Another aspect is the very strong gender ideology in Japan. There&#8217;s a very clear gender division of labor, so men do not really have a function in the household. Their function is basically the breadwinning function.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, Japanese women are more likely to take parental leave when they have a child, and this absence can have negative impacts on their career. If paternity leave is expanded, however, perhaps more families can have children and\u00a0parental leave can become less of a gendered practice. For Japan and other nations, paternity leave may hold the key to an egalitarian family life. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan is known for its stressful corporate culture where overwork is very common. At the same time, Japan\u2019s population is on the wane as the birth rate continues to\u00a0drop. A recent article in\u00a0Seeker\u00a0highlights new research by University of Illinois sociology professor Eunmi Mun\u00a0that may be able to tackle both of these problems at once with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,55,13],"tags":[39112,39114,39110,130,38872,38871],"class_list":["post-6006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-gender","category-inequality","tag-culture","tag-gender","tag-inequality","tag-japan","tag-maternity-leave","tag-paternity-leave"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6006"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6010,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006\/revisions\/6010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}