著者

伊田 久美子

出版者

お茶の水女子大学ジェンダー研究所

雑誌

ジェンダー研究 = Journal of gender studies, Ochanomizu University : お茶の水女子大学ジェンダー研究所年報 (ISSN:13450638)

巻号頁・発行日

no.20, pp.35-43, 2017-03

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Austerity as a neoliberal public policy is argued to have a negative impact\on the level of social reproduction owing to its reduction of social welfare costs\and social services, and many feminists point out that women's conditions of\living are getting worse because reproductive work, both paid and unpaid, has\been borne primarily by women.\ On the other hand, a series of trans-national supranational of United\Nations on women's issues and women's movements of non-governmental\organizations have been promoted since the '70s, and the issues of violence\against women and women's rights have been especially focused upon since\the '90s. It is argued that this trend would not have been realized without\neoliberal globalization because it has an inevitable tendency to weaken\the national sovereignty. This paper proposes to estimate growth and\empowerment of women's agency since the '70s, in the neoliberal trend in\Japan, which has a poor level of welfare state coupled with a strong gender\bias. An improvement of women's conditions could not have been achieved\without the mentioned supranational pressures.