Gender Roles in Japan

YCAPS is delighted to announce next event in the Community Conversations seminar series in the Yokosuka community! This event will feature Dr. Hillary J. Holbrow, Assistant Professor at Indiana University.

This talk will examine how gender roles in Japan have evolved over the past 150 years. Although many people describe Japan as adhering to "traditional" gender roles, I will show how so-called traditional roles--where men work for pay and women manage the household--only emerged in Japan in the 1950s, and have been on the decline since the 1980s. I will also describe the successes and failures of government efforts to promote more egalitarian gender roles over the past 15 years.

Registration: Optional via this Google Form.

Schedule:

• 18:15-19:00 Refreshments & Networking (food & drinks)
• 19:00-20:15 Presentation and Q&A
• 20:15-20:30 Post Event Conversing

Location: *Please take note: We are in a new location for this event! New location listed here:

Yokosuka City Industrial Exchange Plaza Training Room #2

〒238-0041 Kanagawa, Yokosuka, Honchō, 3-chōme−27 メルキュールホテル横須賀
https://www.yokosuka-sanpla.jp/

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Speaker:

Hilary J. Holbrow is an assistant professor at Indiana University , where she researches and teaches on Japanese society, with a focus on work and the economy, immigration, and gender. Her book, The Future is Foreign: Women and Immigrants in Corporate Japan examines how employment patterns are shifting as Japan's population ages. She has lived in Tokyo, Yokohama, Okinawa, and Kyoto.

Format: This event will be off-the-record.

Registration: Optional via this Google Form
Moderators: Jeff Mazziotta, YCAPS Activites Coordinator

Co-Sponsor: None
Seminar Cost: Free of charge