Male and Female Patterns of Labour Force Participation: a Comparison between France and Japan

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  • Hiroatsu Nohara
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This article seeks to compare the patterns of articulation in France and Japan between the men’s activity and women’s activity in the society. In particular, we focus on the differences of activity models between French and Japanese women, which can be considered as a good analyser to reveal a specific and national form of interdependence between work, family and society. Based on the descriptive macro-statistic method, we aim to show that the national model of women’s activity doesn’t originate purely neither from the individual rational choice cost/advantage calculation within the household nor from the national culture domination. We posit that such a model is a social ‘fabric’ which is constructed on the interaction between the strategic interplay of various actors and the national representation of family crystallized in the public social policies. Résumé Ce texte se propose de comparer, entre la France et le Japon, les modalités d'articulation des activités des femmes et des hommes dans la société, en particulier en mettant l'accent sur la comparaison des modèles d'activité féminine qui s'avèrent comme un analyseur pertinent de l'interdépendance entre travail, famille et société. Basé sur la méthodologie du type macro statistique, il vise à montrer que le modèle "national" d’activité féminine ne résulte ni simplement d’un choix fondé sur le calcul coût avantage au sein du ménage considéré comme un espace de capital, ni d’une culture nationale omnipotente, mais qu’il se construit sur une interaction entre les jeux d’acteurs stratégiques et la représentation de la famille cristallisée autour des politiques des pouvoirs publics. Cet arbitrage au sein du ménage, qui n’exclue pas forcément le calcul, s’effectue néanmoins dans un espace fortement structuré non seulement par la tradition culturelle mais aussi et surtout par les conventions sociétales forgées différemment d’une société à l’autre. ha ls hs -0 03 91 51 8, v er si on 1 5 Ju n 20 09 Author manuscript, published in "Embedding Organizations : Societal Analysis of Actors, Organisations and Socio-economic Contexts, Marc Maurice, Arndt Sorge (Ed.) (2000) 373-388"

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تاریخ انتشار 2009