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Shinohara, Chika. "Transforming Law and Social Consciousness in Japan: Perspectives on Contemporary Issues in Family and Work" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City, Aug 10, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p183307_index.html>

Shinohara, C. , 2007-08-10 "Transforming Law and Social Consciousness in Japan: Perspectives on Contemporary Issues in Family and Work" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p183307_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: This paper illustrates how issues in family and work have shifted in contemporary Japan. Since the 1985 Equal Employment Opportunity Law (EEOL), laws and public attitudes have continued to expand their support for women’s employment. The legal amendments, however, came not only with a growing social consciousness, but also with international pressure to improve women’s status. For instance, the Committee formed under the Convention for the Elimination for all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) pressured Japan to expand its EEOL. During the same time, the national media quite intensively covered employment issues in the United States and European countries, including sexual harassment scandals in the United States and family leave policies & practices in Europe. How have these “influences from outside” shaped Japanese understanding of such issues in the Japanese cultural and legal contexts? Analyzing my interviews with 20 experts of this particular issue, this study introduces perspectives on work-family issues and attempts to explain why the employment rights law and social consciousness developed in the post-EEOL Japan. This study is theoretically important to understand why such legal and social consciousness expansions were possible in a more traditional cultural context of family and work. This research contributes to studies in law and cultural change, neoinstitutionalism, and social consciousness.

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