Sustainability, diversity, and equality

• Titel: Sustainability, diversity, and equality
• Titelzusatz: key challenges for Japan
• Mitwirkende: Tanaka, Kimiko [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Selin, Helaine [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: Kimiko Tanaka, Helaine Selin (editors)
• Verlagsort: Cham, Switzerland
• Verlag: Springer
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 470 Seiten)
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Science across cultures ; volume 13
• Fussnoten: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
• ISBN: 978-3-031-36331-3
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• K10plus-PPN: 1898888299
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

Intro -- Introduction -- Beyond Numbers: Japan's Demographic Challenges and Future -- The Myth of Homogeneity: Ignorance, Discrimination and Prejudice Towards Soto -- Gender Inequality: Challenging Gender Roles and the Gender Binary -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Part I: Beyond Numbers: Japan's Demographic Challenges and Future -- Single and Unready to Mingle: The Insecure Lifeworlds of Never-Married Japanese -- Introduction -- Singles in Japan -- Why More People Are Unmarried: Structural and Cultural Barriers -- Stereotypes/Stigma Attached to Singles -- Konkatsu: Marriage-Hunting Activities -- Other Market Responses to Single-ization and Its Implications -- Implications to the Future of Japan -- References -- Infertility in Relation to Japanese Parental Norms -- Birth in Wedlock and Fertility Treatment -- Fertility Decline and Health Insurance Coverage of Fertility Treatment -- Orientation Toward Genetic Linkage -- Third-Party Reproduction -- COVID-19 and the Future of Fertility Treatment in Japan -- References -- Patriarchy, Paternalism, and Politics of Reproductive Autonomy: Abortion Rights in Japan -- Introduction -- Background -- Policies -- Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) -- Health System -- Insurance and Public Subsidy -- Medical Professionals -- Conclusion -- References -- Government and Organizational Materials -- Newspaper Articles -- Aging, Health, and Gender -- Introduction -- Gender Differences in Health and Mortality: Evidence from Japan -- The Paradox of Men's and Women's Health -- Gender Gap in Health and Mortality in Japan -- Family, Gender, and Health in Japan -- Japanese Families and Recent Developments: Changing Women's Roles -- Gender Stratification and Health in Japanese Families -- Summary and Discussion -- References -- A Chronology of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan.