Chapter 6 Summary

Oda, Yamato and Tarohmaru in Chapter 6 analyze gender segregation in which the strength of occupational that differ across Japanese prefectures. Across many societies occupational segregation generally shows certain similarities. Men are more likely to get manual jobs, while women are more likely to get non-manual jobs than men. This gender segregation referred to as horizontal occupational. However, vertical segregation is a trend of vertical occupational, whereby women tend to get jobs with lower socioeconomic status compared to men. In addition, the development of gender segregated employment and lower pay for women industrial workers contributed to the employment policies adopted by both the state and employers from the 1960s onward ( Cheng and Hsiung 1998; Seguino 1997). For example, women were in effect prevented from entering higher-paid skilled job
The between early 1960s and 1973 labor intensive phase of export led industrialization played a key role in the young of unmarried women. Young women labor for export manufacturing state policy in both countries was instrumental in mobilizing. According to Greenhalgh, (1985) found that Taiwan and the women to the factories acted as a broker getting the factories towards the Taiwan government. In the early to mid 1970s in both countries women constituted about 80-85 per cent of the workers. Young women provided the low-wage, unskilled labor for export manufacturing that recruited from rural areas and out of obligation to their families ( Nam 1995; Arrigo 1980). These women school was cut short because earning to support the schooling of their brothers and family members ( Greenhalgh,